[squeak-dev] Pragma support in Squeak/Pharo/Cuis

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Fri Jan 28 12:59:48 UTC 2011


Torsten Bergmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to port the recent changes made to HelpSystem
> (for instance to be able to mark a method with a pragma
>  like <wikiStyleHelp: 'My Book'>) 
>
> This would allow to define and load help contents without 
> any dependency on the help system.
>
> Unfortunately Squeak now differs (a little bit?) from Pharo 
> regarding the Pragma support. There is no PragmaCollector class, ...
> Dont know if there are more differences, any ideas/experiences?
> What about Cuis?
>
> Would'nt it make sense to use a similar implementation in 
> all worlds? 
>
> Comments appreciated. 
>
> Thx
> T.

Hi Torsten,

You mean "method annotations" right? ('Pragma' has a completely 
different meaning in the language / compilers that use them, and is a 
very bad name for this).

Cuis doesn't currently support method annotations.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich



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