Did very early versions of Kotlin not require `@` for annotations? <https://github.com/JetBrains/ko...

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[Adam S]

Did very early versions of Kotlin not require @ for annotations?

https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/commit/5cecaa6f87e68e4de94015c397ecaca7eccd257e

[Ruckus]

Yeah, in the early days there was an attempt to merge the concepts of annotations (e.g. @Before, @Deprecated) and modifiers (e.g. public, abstract). I don't remember all the details on why that was reversed, but there were probably some good reasons.

[Ruckus]

I found an old blog post about it: https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2015/08/modifiers-vs-annotations/

[Tgo1014]

That’s really cool! Thanks for sharing!