1.1 --- a/src/share/classes/javax/lang/model/util/AbstractElementVisitor7.java Wed Jan 23 13:27:24 2013 -0800
1.2 +++ b/src/share/classes/javax/lang/model/util/AbstractElementVisitor7.java Wed Jan 23 20:11:07 2013 -0800
1.3 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
1.4 /*
1.5 - * Copyright (c) 2010, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
1.6 + * Copyright (c) 2010, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
1.7 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
1.8 *
1.9 * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
1.10 @@ -52,6 +52,15 @@
1.11 * visit method in question. When the new visitor is introduced, all
1.12 * or portions of this visitor may be deprecated.
1.13 *
1.14 + * <p>Note that adding a default implementation of a new visit method
1.15 + * in a visitor class will occur instead of adding a <em>default
1.16 + * method</em> directly in the visitor interface since a Java SE 8
1.17 + * language feature cannot be used to this version of the API since
1.18 + * this version is required to be runnable on Java SE 7
1.19 + * implementations. Future versions of the API that are only required
1.20 + * to run on Java SE 8 and later may take advantage of default methods
1.21 + * in this situation.
1.22 + *
1.23 * @param <R> the return type of this visitor's methods. Use {@link
1.24 * Void} for visitors that do not need to return results.
1.25 * @param <P> the type of the additional parameter to this visitor's
