Guys, i really wonder, how it differs from using a usual smalltalk syntax for
class declaration?

pragmas: '<pragma1> <pragma2>'

can be written as:

pragmas: 'pragma1 pragma2'�

without any loss of extensibility/flexibility/whatever.

Of course, we can put any sequence of characters into the string
literal and parse
them in any way we want to, to extract some extra information. But is
it worth it?
But i wonder, why we should invent so over-complicated ways to do simple things?

In any way, if we need that class should carry additional information,
which needs to be formally represented in
declaration, then i why not just keep using ordinary syntax, by adding
either additional keywords, or even statements.
Just look at ProtoObject declaration:

ProtoObject subclass: #ProtoObject
� � � �instanceVariableNames: ''
� � � �classVariableNames: ''
� � � �poolDictionaries: ''
� � � �category: 'Kernel-Objects'.
ProtoObject superclass: nil

if we want to extend this, it is logically to follow the same pattern
and add any other statements, like:

MyClass foo: bar.

Just my 2c.

2010/7/9 Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@gmail.com>:

>
>
> 2010/7/8 Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck@gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> 2010/7/8 Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Why not add an extension to the #subclass: method family like
>>>
>>> Object subclass: #AppRegistry
>>> ��� instanceVariableNames: ''
>>> ��� classVariableNames: ''
>>> ��� poolDictionaries: ''
>>> ��� pragmas: '<pragma1> <pragma2>'
>>> ��� category: 'System-Applications'
>>>
>>
>> good idea. But then, you need to have a collection of Pragmas in Behavior,
>> ClassDescription or similar.� Did I understand well?
>>
>
> Would it be easily extensible ? I mean extending the class of another
> package...
>
> Nicolas
>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre@bergel.eu>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > May be using a class method?
>>>> > But yes this would be important.
>>>>
>>>> The initialize method of the metaclass maybe.
>>>>
>>>> Alexandre
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > On Jul 8, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Torsten Bergmann wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> Hi,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> while it is possible to annotate methods using Pragmas,
>>>> >> what about classes?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Thx
>>>> >> T.
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