Re: compiler directives; (was: Re: cheerful static typing (was: Any and Every... (was: Eval)))

[Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs <address@hidden>]

   From: Dorai Sitaram <ds26@gte.com>
   Subject: Re: compiler directives; (was: Re: cheerful static typing (was: Any 
and Every... (was: Eval)))
   To: ll1-discuss@ai.mit.edu
   Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:38:49 -0500 (EST)
   
   >    
   > Let me suggest (with a sly grin) that the distinction between
   > language construct and compiler directive is exactly as crisp
   > as the distinction between language and library.
   > 
   > --Guy
   
   Compiler directives (or "pragmas") are required to be
   flags.

(a) Says who?

(b) What do you mean by a "flag"?

           So the distinction between them and lang
   construct may not be as smudgeable as the one
   between lang and lib. 
   
   --d