Personally I don't like Pragmas, they have not convinced me so far that they fit the style of Smalltalk syntax. I have to confess though I never liked descriptive elements and languages .��

About python decorators I disagree that are similar to pragmas. Pragmas are focused on being descriptive , python decorators are descriptive as by product. The main focus of python decorators is to shorten code by introducing syntactic sugar.��

I agree though this is a very interesting discussion and I dont understand most of the things stated here so I leave an open door and mind for pragmas. Maybe one day I will "get it".��

On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Thierry Goubier <thierry.goubier@gmail.com> wrote:

2015-02-06 22:00 GMT+01:00 stepharo <stepharo@free.fr>:
Really interesting discussion. I like pragmas but this is interesting to see them challenged.

Thanks. It's a pleasure to discuss that way :)
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Yes, but there end up being lots of naming conventions and they are non-obvious.�� Whereas pragmas, because they are in-your-face in the methods in question, don't need conventions. They just need documenting ;-).

Thierry I'm skeptical that multiple protocol will save the problem because you will rely on coding conventions.

Pragma as well: just explain the conventions behind the gtInspector pragmas, for example.

But give me multiple protocols and I'll show you the same conventions rewritten in less lines (and a slightly more efficient code).
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And pragma is a clever tagging.

Then maybe we should remove protocols and replace them with pragmas :)

Thierry
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Stef