Isn't answering to a message not enough? Like #nbStruc #ormTableName etc.
Pragmas are somehow orthogonal to the common message sending and method lookup. Esteban A. Maringolo 2013/9/12 Igor Stasenko <siguc...@gmail.com> > > > > On 12 September 2013 13:56, Torsten Bergmann <asta...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> We can mark methods with pragmas and ask the pragma collector >> to give the methods marked with it. >> >> Do we (already) have some kind of pragma like mechanism to annotate >> classes? I mean a general mechanism that one can use to mark classes >> with pragmas/settings/ ...? >> >> There are various scenarios where this might be useful: >> - an ORM mapper would like to associate a persistence class with a >> table name >> - an NBExternalStructure subclass wrapping a structure can be annotated >> with >> the original struct name >> - ... >> >> > Why so complicated (e.g. pragmas) ? Just add one more inst var , like > 'annotation' for Class object > and you have it. > > >> Thx >> T. >> >> >> > > > -- > Best regards, > Igor Stasenko. >