On 3 Nov 2011, at 23:34, David Blevins wrote:
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> On Nov 3, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Pete Muir wrote:
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>> We could either reuse the name Stereotype and define it more generally as David suggests or invent a new name like meta-type, to which we can retrofit stereotypes as a "specialization".
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> That second option is interesting.
From what I've seen of meta-type proposals so far, I don't think that retrofitting stereotype onto that definition is hard. We can always expand where stereotypes are allowed to be applied. Stereotypes would additionally be affected but the CDI programmatic configuration SPI.