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> On 05 Sep 2016, at 22:31, Xiaodi Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I agree: "mark" (IMO) is in the same category as "todo" and "fixme", and all 
> are bona fide comments. If you wish your code to be disabled without becoming 
> parsed as a comment, use instead `#if false`.
> 
>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 15:27 Jean-Daniel Dupas via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> > Le 5 sept. 2016 à 00:53, isidoro carlo ghezzi via swift-evolution 
>> > <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I think the "old style" `#pragma` is necessary in Swift.
>> > Exactly in the same way it is available in C/C++ or Objective-C/C++, or in 
>> > something else portable way.
>> >
>> > Because `#pragma` is not handled in Swift, in Xcode they overloaded the 
>> > semantic of comments, giving to the comment `// MARK:` the semantic of 
>> > `#pragma mark`
>> >
>> > But my point of view is that, I would like that what it is written in a 
>> > source comment (what it is written after a // or between /* */ ) should be 
>> > fully ignore by compiler or IDE.
>> >
>> > I understand that maybe a compiler shouldn't lose time handling `#pragma 
>> > options`, but giving semantics to source comment, I think it can be 
>> > dangerous and misunderstood.
>> >
>> > The implementation in Swift compiler should be simple, ignoring any line 
>> > beginning with `#pragma` (ok I know It is not simple)
>> > The IDE will handle the `#pragma`
>> >
>> > That's why they invented `#pragma`in C/C++ Objective-C/C++ right?
>> 
>> I don’t think it is a reason pragma exists. except for #pragma mark, I’m not 
>> sure the compiler ignore any pragma. They are used to control the compiler 
>> behaviors (controlling warning, specifying linker dependencies, enabled 
>> specific feature like OpenMP, etc…) and not at all to interact with the IDE. 
>> I would even says that pragma mark is an abuse of the #pragma construct as 
>> it is ignored by the compiler and used by the IDE only.
>> 
>> I’m strongly again introducing #pragma without very very good reason into 
>> swift. Asking the IDE to parse comment to extract metadata is not worst 
>> abusing pragma to do the same, and at least it is forward and backward 
>> compatible with any other tools.
>> 
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