Like Steph implied, search the nabble archive, and you will find the
lengthy discussion which took place over a year ago.
Cheers,
Henry
Den 28. apr. 2010 kl. 19.41 skrev Hannes Hirzel
<[email protected]>:
On 4/28/10, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote:
Hannes
We know pragmas since they appeared a while ago in VW. We are good
metaprogrammers
and know that annotation are good to a certain extent: I do not
like the
delegate annotation used
by vassily in VW because they changed the semantics of the system.
Now we got lengthy discussion a while ago in the pharo mailing-list
and may
be in the squeak one since I remember andreas presenting his view. We
reached a consensus, alain changed his implementation to fit the
result of
the discussions and we are quite happy
with it.
- We can package setting in a package or outside (outside is better
since we
do not have dead code)
when preferences are not loaded, but this is the choice of the
package
designer.
- We use a builder so that we do not have to have a mini language
interpreter for the pragmas.
As I said we are happy with it and we hope to get rid of Preferences
completely :).
Stef
Stéphane
Thank you for your update on this issue.
Do you have a link to writeup what the consensus for Pharo is
regarding pragmas / method annotation / use of metadata?
For which areas are they used? What are the conventions? For Squeak we
do not necessarily want to do something different unless we think it
is necessary because of shortcomings of your solutions (as perceived
from our point of view).
And I think the discussion on the Squeak list seems to develop into a
direction where people want to get rid of the Preferences class like
you.
--Hannes
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