Sept. 22, 2015
5:39 a.m.
On 21 Sep 2015, at 23:53, stepharo <stepharo@free.fr> wrote:
I think that having metadata (style) language and data (source code) mixed together is a bad idea. I never like the ]lang[ tag because it is a huge hack. It does not even exist in the Smalltalk syntax!!! We save code that the parser cannot parse. What we fun idea. So people are bashing for backward compatibility and we remove a bad way to encode metadata then suddenly it looks like we were doing something bad.
Stef
I am with Stef, it is a silly idea to mix the two. Nobody uses this in Pharo. Cleaning up means simplifying too.