From: Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@...>
Date: 2006-08-28T04:09:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Matz' Wild Ideas: Annotations

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On Sunday 27 August 2006 05:11, Trans wrote:

> I was looking at Matz' Wild and Weird ideas [1]. He talks about
> annotations at one point and gives this example:
>
>   # @require: arg1 >=3D 10
>   # @overriding: true
>   # @visibility: public
>   def foo(arg1)
>     ...
>   end
>
> I'm not too keen on using comments like this. It separates the
> annotations from ordinary code, thwarting  the great dynamic nature of
> Ruby. Perhaps autovivify class level methods with a syntax like call
> instance vars could be used instead:
>
>   @foo require: lambda { arg1 >=3D 10 }
>        overriding: true,
>        visibility: public
>
> That way they could be used any where, even encapsulated and reused.
>
> T.
>
> [1] http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/slides/rc2005/index.html

It would be really nice to implement something like Spark's annotations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_programming_language#Annotation_examples

=2D-=20
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to the amount of work, I usually need 10 days to answer)

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