</para>
<para>It is a compilation error to attempt to match on an annotation type
- that does not have runtime retention using one of these pointcut designators.</para>
+ that does not have runtime retention using <literal>@this, @target</literal>
+ or <literal>@args</literal>. It is a compilation error to attempt to use
+ any of these designators to expose an annotation value that does not
+ have runtime retention.</para>
<para>
The <literal>this()</literal>, <literal>target()</literal>, and