problem in porting from smalltalk

Lukas Renggli renggli at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 18:18:43 UTC 2006


> Yup, I sure did. Mostly because I was concerned about the IP aspects.
> But keep in mind that my rant was a meta rant and (in this case) pointed
> at using the name Pragma where one only has to look at
> http://www.google.com/search?q=define:+pragma to see that pragma
> describes not what these annotations are being used for and that
> therefore the "consistency" argument is really a "compatibility"
> argument, e.g., VW uses that bad name so we have to use the same bad
> name. And there is really no point in that unless you want to write a VW
> clone.

Ok.

No I don't want a VW clone (e.g., we are doing fine without
namespaces), but I want my Seaside, Magritte, Pier, etc. to be easily
portable to VW.

Lukas

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