<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Andreas Raab <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andreas.raab@gmx.de">andreas.raab@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 4/26/2010 1:56 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:<br>
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If pragmas would be the code, then i expect them to look like code i.e.:<br>
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I never claimed that that "pragmas are code". In fact, I said *specifically*<br>
the opposite.<br>
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Ok, then i wonder, what is the subject of discussion?<br>
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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.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Let me be specific. I'm not confused (about this at least). I know that the old "primitive pragma" actually specified code. However, it was /called/ a primitive pragma, and the "pragma" terminology descends from that incorrect usage.</div>
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If its only about terminology, then its not interesting. We may call<br>
it pragma, method annotation or whatever.<br>
I think that more improtant is how we handling it and what we can do with it.<br>
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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.<br>
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- Andreas<br>
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