On Feb 24, 2006, at 9:10 AM, stéphane ducasse wrote:

> andreas may be VW people got first the wrong name, but using a  
> consistent one is better I think.

Being consistent with the thinking and naming conventions of some  
Java folks, who might want to drop in, wouldn't hurt either.
Especially as they might have a bigger problem to change their  
"bindings" than the VW-folks... ;-)

And to me "annotations" seems to be a much more telling word than  
"pragma" (though "attribute" from C# seems to be the more polymorph...)

See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annotation
"Differences in computer languages have given rise to a variety of  
words for programmer-added metadata, including annotation (Java),  
attribute (C#), pragma (C), and metadata (HTML)."

Cheers,

Markus

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> Stef
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> On 23 févr. 06, at 22:58, Andreas Raab wrote:
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>> 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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