| Qualifiers and Scoping annotations have different semantic meanings and a single | |
| annotation should not be both a qualifier and a scoping annotation. | |
| If an annotation is both a scoping annotation and a qualifier, unless great care | |
| is taken with its application and usage, the semantics of objects annotated with | |
| the annotation are unclear. | |
| Take a look at this example: | |
| ```java | |
| @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) | |
| @Scope | |
| @Qualifier | |
| @interface DayScoped {} | |
| static class Allowance {} | |
| static class DailyAllowance extends Allowance {} | |
| static class Spender { | |
| @Inject | |
| Spender(Allowance allowance) {} | |
| } | |
| static class BindingModule extends AbstractModule { | |
| ... | |
| @Provides | |
| @DayScoped | |
| Allowance providesAllowance() { | |
| return new DailyAllowance(); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| Here, the `Allowance` instance used by Spender isn't actually scoped to a single | |
| day, as the `@Provides` method applies the `DayScoped` scoping only to the | |
| `@DayScoped Allowance`. Instead, the default constructor of `Allowance` is used | |
| to create a new instance every time a `Spender` is created. | |
| If `@DayScope` wasn't a `Qualifier`, the provider method would do the right | |
| thing: the un-annotated `Allowance` binding would be scoped to `DayScope`, | |
| implemented by a single `DailyAllowance` instance per day. |