[hibernate-dev] Legacy positional params and JPA "positional" params

[Steve Ebersole]

Actually its possible that the TCK always tested it and merging
`javax.persistence.Query` and `org.hibernate.query.Query` may be the
culprit.  But either way, the net result is the same...

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 8:44 AM Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:

> I wont bore everyone with the history here, but long story short is that
> we need to start treating JPA "positional" parameters as positional in the
> `javax.persistence.Parameter#getPosition` sense.  Even though there is
> nothing positional about JPA's positional parameters, this has moved from a
> philosophical discussion to a practical one as the JPA 2.2 TCK is testing
> this, whereas older ones did not
>
> To do that however, we need to drop our older positional parameter
> support.  That feature has been deprecated for quite some time now.  Unless
> there are objections, I will plan on dropping that in 5.3
>