[squeak-dev] Re: Pragmas (Re: The Inbox: Morphic-phite.429.mcz)

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Mon Apr 26 22:49:49 UTC 2010


On 4/26/2010 3:29 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 27.04.2010, at 00:21, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
>>
>>> Terminology is important and the terminology we currently
>>> have is *extremely* confusing.
>>
>> And that is why I am reluctant having these pragmas 'crawl' into menu definitions.
>
> Now that's just silly, sorry. Nobody is questioning the utility of these guys, whatever we call them.

Indeed. Nobody is questioning the utility. Personally, I still find 
"method property" to be the best name since it doesn't presume whether 
the property has an impact on code or not. A primitive can be a method 
property that represents code, a pragma can be a property that 
represents a compiler instruction, an annotation can be a property that 
is used for discovery.

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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