<pragmatic and not ranting> I guess that we are not slavishly  
reproducing VW. And lukas and marcus did a really good
to get annotation or pragmas in Squeak.  Just helping Squeak and VW  
to communicate more.
Because when you will be happily be able to use their crypto package  
then we would all have win something.
And easing the port of good abstractions (Pier, Seaside) between the  
dialect is important for everybody.
<\pragmatic and not ranting>

> <meta>
> Not that I personally care that much about this particular name but  
> you are touching a sore point here. That point is that in too many  
> situations I have seen people copying really screwed up stuff from  
> VW[*] and other systems just because they can't change it there and  
> don't want to work around the differences. What happens then is  
> that you are actively making Squeak worse by repeating a bad  
> decision (even worse: you are repeating it although you have the  
> benefit of hindsight) where instead you should be fixing the  
> mistake and help make Squeak a better system.
>
> And yes, I understand that this is inconvenient if you care about  
> compatibility but slavishly repeating everything VW does will only  
> get you a VW clone, not a better system.
> </meta>
>
> [*] My pet peeve these days: Proliferation of standard protocols  
> for the "sake" of compatibility with X, Y, or Z. Just look at the  
> evolution of the Collection protocols over the last 4-5 Squeak  
> versions to see what I mean. I mean, if people need compatibility,  
> why not make a compatibility *package*? Like, in this, a subclass  
> of the real thing that's named Pragma and can be used if you need  
> "compatible" pragmas.
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
> stéphane ducasse wrote:
>> andreas may be VW people got first the wrong name, but using a  
>> consistent one is better I think.
>> Stef
>> On 23 févr. 06, at 22:58, Andreas Raab wrote:
>>> Lukas Renggli wrote:
>>>> The pragmas in 3.9 are not there to tweak the code generator. After
>>>> parsing they are put into the compiled method, so that the  
>>>> system can
>>>> query tagged methods. It has absolutely nothing to do with the
>>>> #pragma, except that is shared its name.
>>>
>>> Which is precisely the reason why I originally called them  
>>> "annotations" instead of pragmas.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>   - Andreas
>>>
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