[squeak-dev] Re: Pragmas (Re: The Inbox: Morphic-phite.429.mcz)
Lawson English
lenglish5 at cox.net
Mon Apr 26 21:35:51 UTC 2010
Andreas Raab wrote:
> On 4/26/2010 1:56 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>>> If pragmas would be the code, then i expect them to look like code
>>>> i.e.:
>>>
>>> I never claimed that that "pragmas are code". In fact, I said
>>> *specifically*
>>> the opposite.
>>>
>>
>> Ok, then i wonder, what is the subject of discussion?
>
> The subject of the post was an attempt to clarify what pragmas are and
> what they aren't. Given that even Eliot is confused about it by
> referring to "primitive pragmas" that seemed worthwhile all by itself.
>
>> If its only about terminology, then its not interesting. We may call
>> it pragma, method annotation or whatever.
>> I think that more improtant is how we handling it and what we can do
>> with it.
>
> Terminology is important and the terminology we currently have is
> *extremely* confusing. People refer to "pragmas" and whenever a third
> party hears that they think "oh, compiler stuff, better stay away from
> it" not realizing that that's not what these are. This is how this
> discussion started after all.
>
>
Could take a page from QM and just refer to "<>" as Bra-Ket notation...
:-)
Lawson
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