On 19 août 06, at 13:49, stéphane ducasse wrote:

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> On 19 août 06, at 05:24, Andreas Raab wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Why you can pass a string? It will not be validated but you get  
> your extensibility.

Or you could even parse the string separately.
I do not see the difference except that the string is the argument of  
a <jlk: