typetools / typetools/checker-framework
Flow expression syntax for for the return value
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Description
It would be nice to be able to concisely refer to a method's return value in an annotation argument.
Two possible syntaxes are:
return\result
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the code that parses Flow expressions and annotation arguments, then determine how either proposed return-value syntax should be specified and tested; done means one accepted syntax works consistently in the relevant annotations.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100