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If I want to use Spring retry in Java I do this, with "@BackOff". If I paste the same annotation on a Kotlin function it complains about the @ sign with "an annotation can't be used as the annotations argument, so I have to remove the @ sign which is what also happens if I convert the Java to Kotlin

Why is this and will the Kotlin work without the @ sign ?

Kotlin:

``` @Retryable(backoff = @Backoff(delay = 2222)) // won't compile
    fun doIt() {
    }```
Java:
```public class Delme {

    @Retryable(backoff = @Backoff(delay = 2222))
    void doIt() {

    }
}```

I don't know but I would ask that in other channel, this is not much related to spring

syntax is something like

```@Retryable(backoff = Backoff(delay = 2222))```
or

```@Retryable(backoff = [Backoff(delay = 2222)])```
I don’t remember exactly

this is from doc
```If an annotation is used as a parameter of another annotation, its name is not prefixed with the @ character:```