On Oct 3, 2013, at 1:44 AM, Eliot Miranda <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> > wrote: > > For example > > <systemEventRegistration> > I have no idea (of course there is no comment) what is the use of > this pragma. > > Chasing pragma interpreter can be painful so we should pay attention. > Too many pragmas are a plague. > > Agreed. Part of the design of pragmas is that, because they're message > sends, they have implementations. Those implementations can document what > the pragma does. The browser should include pragma selectors when doing > "implementors..." so one can easily find the implementation of a pragma. > Also senders... should answer methods with pragmas with the selector being > looked for. If both of these are true then pragmas are much easier to > explore and understand. It does. But I want more :) I want a comment that explain to me the purpose. > > > HTH, > Eliot
