On 19 août 06, at 05:24, Andreas Raab wrote:

> 3. We are loosing one of the few extension points in Squeak.
>
> Historically, the "escape syntax" using <> has been used as one of  
> the few available syntactical extension points to Squeak. By having  
> pragmas occupy this entire realm we're giving up one of the last  
> true extension points to Squeak. Any new experiment will now  
> require major syntactical changes instead of being able to hook  
> into this particular extension point. Any time that happens I think  
> we should be very careful about what we're giving up.

Why you can pass a string? It will not be validated but you get your  
extensibility.

Stef