You force me to search archives. I hope anybody else does this :).

Here is good answer why pragma instead of annotation:
http://forum.world.st/Pragma-support-in-Squeak-Pharo-Cuis-td3243836.html#a3245226

2016-11-16 15:46 GMT+01:00 H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>:

> On 11/15/16, Denis Kudriashov <dionisiydk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2016-11-15 21:58 GMT+01:00 Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de>:
> >
> >> Here's my 2ct:
> >>
> >> 1. Pragmas aren't actually pragmas. They do not instruct the compiler to
> >> do things (_except_ for primitive: and apicall:, but these are now
> >> outliers).
> >>    They rather add metadata to a (compiled) method.
> >> 2. The 'thing' (ie, class) should probably be named
> >>         MethodAnnotation
> >> 3. We can have the cake and eat it to:
> >>
> >>         Rename Pragma -> MethodAnnotation.
> >>         Make Pragma a new subclass of MethodAnnotation.
> >>         Make MethodAnnotation implement
> >>                 #methodSelector
> >>                 #annotationSelector (or #selector, if it must be)
> >>         Make Pragma implement
> >>                 #selector
> >>                 #keywords
> >>
> >
> > I remember long discussion about Pragma vs Annotation name where Igor won
> > completely :)). Conclusion was that Pragma is a right name.
>
> Is there a summary of this discussion available?
>
> --Hannes
>
>
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