Greg Ewing: > Greg Wilson <gvwilson@nevex.com>: > > > Pragmas are a way to embed programs for the > > parser in the file being parsed. > > I hope the BDFL has the good sense to run screaming from > anything that has the word "pragma" in it. As this discussion > demonstrates, it's far too fuzzy and open-ended a concept -- > nobody can agree on what sort of thing a pragma is supposed > to be. It is a good idea, however, to claim a piece of syntactic turf as early as possible so that if/when it is needed, it is unlikely to cause problems with previously written code. My preference would be to introduce a reserved word 'directive' for future expansion here. 'pragma' has connotations of 'ignorable compiler hint' but most of the proposed compiler directives will cause incorrect behaviour if ignored. Neil
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