Like in VisualWorks. Damien have a look at the example on the Pragma  
class

stef

On 23 juil. 07, at 12:21, Damien Cassou wrote:

> 2007/7/23, nicolas cellier <ncellier at ifrance.com>:
>> Yes, Preferences should be limited to providing some kind of  
>> registration
>> machinery and basic UI and IO services rather than holding the  
>> state of all
>> possible packages.
>>
>> Maybe this can even be done with some kind of <#annotation: >
>> (name is less-controversial than pragma).
>> This way, if Preferences is in the image, it interprets the  
>> annotations;
>> if not, then no harm with Undeclared or something...
>
> I'm not sure annotations are used for that kind of things:
>
> - the preference system would have to browse all methods of all
> classes to detect these annotations
> - in which method do you put the annotation?
> - in your code, how do you access the preference? and if the
> preference system is not present, how do you code this?
>
> -- 
> Damien Cassou
>
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