I think that nicolas is talking about
method pragmas as in VW and now in squeak 3.9.

Retrospectively I think that pragmas are really an excellent addition  
to VW
with is bloated with the lot of less desirable features (class import  
level...)

Stef

On 23 févr. 06, at 22:17, Peter Crowther wrote:

>> From: nicolas cellier
>> Have to revert to a <pragma> thing...
>
> I'm not convinced.  Pragmas are at best a kludge.
>
> I liked the early gcc response to #pragma.  The spec stated that a
> compiler could do whatever it wanted when it saw a #pragma, so gcc  
> tried
> to run a variety of games and threw a segmentation fault if it  
> failed to
> find any of them.
>
> 		- Peter
>
>