[cdi-dev] Section 4.2 worst worded section yet.... holy moly... really?

[Martin Kouba]

Pete you're right, this approach is dangerous when writing unambiguous spec.

Martin

Dne 18.10.2011 15:33, Pete Muir napsal(a):
> That's a dangerous approach, as it means we introduce possible confusion with two pieces of text saying the same thing.
>
> I don't think the sentence needs extensive rephrasing, just a new structure to avoid it being quite so unwieldy to read...
>
> On 18 Oct 2011, at 14:31, Martin Kouba wrote:
>
>> I would not reword it but instead extend the original text with something like Rick's proposal and beginning with "In other words...".
>>
>> There may be people who already spent a lot of time trying to understand that sentence and they would be dissapointed that their favorite sentence disappeared and the new text to explore is here :-).
>>
>> Also the meaning of the sentence is ok IMO.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> Dne 18.10.2011 15:17, Pete Muir napsal(a):
>>> Yeah, this should be split out into lists.
>>>
>>> Can you file a CDI issue, I will try to reword without changing the meaning.
>>>
>>> On 18 Oct 2011, at 08:12, Rick Hightower wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I think the gist of it is as follows:
>>>>
>>>> Inheritance of Member-level inheritance...
>>>>
>>>> •Injected fields are inherited
>>>> •Initializer methods, non-static observers, @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy are inherited, but can be overridden
>>>> •Interceptors are inherited can be overridden
>>>> •Producers, consumers are not inherited
>>>>
>>>> Check out this working from Section 4.2....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "If X is a generic type, and an injection point, producer method, producer field, disposer method or observer method de- clared by X is inherited by Y, and the declared type of the injection point, producer method, producer field, disposed para- meter or event parameter contains type variables declared by X, the type of the injection point, producer method, producer field, disposed parameter or event parameter inherited in Y is the declared type, after substitution of actual type arguments declared by Y or any intermediate class that is a subclass of X and a superclass of Y."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That is not a paragraph... that is one sentence.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rick Hightower
>>>> (415) 968-9037
>>>> Profile
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> cdi-dev mailing list
>>>>
>>>> cdi-dev at lists.jboss.org
>>>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/cdi-dev
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> cdi-dev mailing list
>>>
>>> cdi-dev at lists.jboss.org
>>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/cdi-dev
>> -- 
>> Martin Kouba
>> JBoss Quality Assurance Engineer
>> E-mail:
>> mkouba at redhat.com
>>
>> Web:
>> www.cz.redhat.com
>>
>> Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 99/71, 612 45, Brno, Czech Republic
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> cdi-dev mailing list
>> cdi-dev at lists.jboss.org
>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/cdi-dev
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/cdi-dev/attachments/20111018/eb57a257/attachment.html