> However, I'm wondering if it might still be possible to avoid the
> need for a thread local context to handle the combination of
> expected failures and subtests when we have access to the test
> caseby adding the annotation that I expected to be there in the
> first place.

But that would break use cases where you use @expectedFailure on a
function called by the test method, not directly on the test method
itself. I don't really care about those use cases myself, but not
breaking them is the reason I chose not to change the @expectedFailure
implementation. I'll let Michael decide :-)