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I think I feel the opposite - that this might make the code a little less readable, unless you know exactly what @Closeable (or whatever it's name was) does. But, to each his own...


The way the Java annotations are defined, it is almost always necessary to understand all annotations before modifying the code. It doesn't have to be this way, but the annotation processor has sufficient power to force it to be this way in practice.




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