pkg/meta/lib/meta.dart

// Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

/**
 * This library contains the definitions of annotations that provide additional
 * semantic information about the program being annotated. These annotations are
 * intended to be used by tools to provide a better user experience.
 *
 * ## Installing ##
 *
 * Use [pub][] to install this package. Add the following to your `pubspec.yaml`
 * file.
 *
 *     dependencies:
 *       meta: any
 *
 * Then run `pub install`.
 *
 * For more information, see the
 * [meta package on pub.dartlang.org](http://pub.dartlang.org/packages/meta).
 *
 * [pub]: http://pub.dartlang.org
 */
library meta;

/**
 * An annotation used to mark a class, field, getter, setter, method, top-level
 * variable, or top-level function as one that should no longer be used. Tools
 * can use this annotation to provide a warning on references to the marked
 * element.
 */
const deprecated = const _Deprecated();

class _Deprecated {
  const _Deprecated();
}

/**
 * An annotation used to mark an instance member (method, field, getter or
 * setter) as overriding an inherited class member. Tools can use this
 * annotation to provide a warning if there is no overridden member.
 */
const override = const _Override();

class _Override {
  const _Override();
}