Why @Provided instead of @Assisted?

[lukesandberg]

This isn't really a bug as much as a design question. as far as i am aware @autofactory was designed as a more performant alternative to guices assisted-inject extension, so i am curious why in @autofactory you annotate all the parameters that you want to be injected whereas in guice you annotate all the parameters that should be explicitly passed (with @assisted).

I have a (mild) preference for the @assisted approach since

1. in my experience, there are are fewer @assisted params than @provided params
2. the provided params will often already have @qualifier annotations applied to them, so adding @provided adds more noise to the parameter declaration (plus raises unfortunate questions about annotation ordering)