Bug 13995

Summary: AST: DCR: BodyDeclaration.getModifiers
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Martin Aeschlimann <martinae>
Component: CoreAssignee: Jim des Rivieres <jeem>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: fmhwong
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: 2.0 M6   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
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Description Martin Aeschlimann CLA 2002-04-17 09:29:47 EDT 
20020416
Minor
All of its subtypes has get/setModifier.
It would be possible to have it in BodyDeclaration
Comment 1 Jim des Rivieres CLA 2002-04-17 10:26:22 EDT 
Each kind of BodyDeclaration has a different set of modifiers that are
legal for that type. So even if there was BodyDeclaration.get/setModifiers,
we might still want to retain separate spec refinements in each subclass.

More fundamentally, it feels like the fact that all BodyDeclarations
have modifiers is incidental, rather than something inherent. Would
anyone really care if a new kind of BodyDeclaration was added to the
language that happens to not have modifiers? I'd bet that anyone going
for modifiers also already knows the kind of node they are dealing with.

So while it would be possible to make this factoring, I can't see anyone 
benefitting from this minor change.
Comment 2 John Arthorne CLA 2002-04-19 18:12:51 EDT 
*** Bug 14267 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***