11.1.4 The annotations
Most programming languages have some means to add information to source code that has no direct impact on the execution.
Let us take two examples:
smalltalkMethodAnnotated
<primitive: 'primAnyBitFromTo' module:'LargeIntegers'>
@Test(timeout = 500) public void javaMethodAnnotated()
more on the examples: what is the type, what is the instance, and how they relate to the entity