src/share/classes/javax/lang/model/util/ElementKindVisitor7.java
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/*
- * Copyright (c) 2010, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2010, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
* DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
*
* This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
* published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this
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* visitor class will also be introduced to correspond to the new
* language level; this visitor will have different default behavior
* for the visit method in question. When the new visitor is
* introduced, all or portions of this visitor may be deprecated.
*
+ * <p>Note that adding a default implementation of a new visit method
+ * in a visitor class will occur instead of adding a <em>default
+ * method</em> directly in the visitor interface since a Java SE 8
+ * language feature cannot be used to this version of the API since
+ * this version is required to be runnable on Java SE 7
+ * implementations. Future versions of the API that are only required
+ * to run on Java SE 8 and later may take advantage of default methods
+ * in this situation.
+ *
* @param <R> the return type of this visitor's methods. Use {@link
* Void} for visitors that do not need to return results.
* @param <P> the type of the additional parameter to this visitor's
* methods. Use {@code Void} for visitors that do not need an
* additional parameter.