On 28 January 2011 21:00, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:
> Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>
>> Anything which included in source code is "an instruction to the
>> compiler to do something", otherwise there is no reason and no sense
>> of putting it there.
>> The difference lies in the who and what exactly "something" it should do.
>> Since pragmas and annotations having same context and same syntax ,
>> except that they differ
>> in "do something" part, there is not much difference in reality,
>> especially if you take into account a reflective nature
>> of smalltalk system, where tools can observe the various properties of
>> objects (such as compiled methods) and
>> decide what to do based of their behavior/state/whatever.
>>
>> So, even if <something> doesn't looks like a pragma (an instruction)
>> for you or your compiler,
>> it could mean a lot for other tools. Does that makes it to be less
>> 'pragmatic' just because its not instruction to compiler but to
>> some other  tool? I don't think so.
>> The <wikiStyleHelp: 'My Book'>  is a help system pragma and don't try
>> to convince me otherwise.
>>
>
> This is waaay off deserving a real answer.
>
:)

yeah.. we are discussing about using proper wording instead of helping
Torsten with his issue.


> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
>
>



-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.