is there any reason Kotlin doesn’t allow a body in...

# language-proposals

[okaymak]

is there any reason Kotlin doesn’t allow a body inside an annotation class?

[louiscad]

Annotations are annotations, not logic

[louiscad]

Annotations can't do more in Java than they can in Kotlin

[damian]

Though you can have inner types or static fields on annotations in Java. I couldn't find an issue for this, so I filed one: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-16962