Re: Pragma strawman

Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> writes:
> I've been involved with other activities today, so I'm behind on
> email, but I did have time to draft a strawman grammar for pragmas.

As I said, I’m not a fan of conflating comment markup with pragma
markup. We have the freedom to do better.

>    {*ixml=http://invisiblexml.org/ixml This is a pragma}
…
>    {*ixml this is a later pragma to the same processor}

Uhm. That feels *a whole lot* like sneaking namespaces into the spec,
except uglier, harder to use, and more error prone.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica