Unconditional

Marker annotation for methods that should be called unconditionally.

This annotation can be applied directly on methods. It can also serve as a meta annotation for other annotations to indicate that they should be treated as unconditional.

Unconditional methods follow 2 clear rules:

• They must be called unconditionally. i.e it is not permitted to call them inside if, when, for or forEach expressions

• They may only be called within other Unconditional annotated methods.

The reason for these rules is to preserve the identity of such methods and as such, ensure correctness and consistency across multiple invocations.

The motivation here is very similar to that of Hooks. In fact, hooks are a kind of Unconditional, though the vice versa is not necessarily true.

Note: At the moment, it is not possible to call Unconditional methods directly from a render(), hence, they can only be called from other unconditional methods (including Hooks, even though hooks don't actually have such restriction). This restriction may be lifted in the future.