[jboss-dev] Why doesn't Deprecated have a reason/value attribute

[David M. Lloyd]

On 02/18/2009 01:11 PM, Scott Stark wrote:
> Anyone know why the jdk Deprecated does not have a reason or some such 
> attribute?

My guess is because that info is documentation, so you should put it in the 
javadocs anyway.  Though I don't believe that allows them to show the 
message at compile time, which is a seemingly important time to show that info.

- DML