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From:
Nick Ing-Simmons
Date:
November 21, 1999 13:27
Subject:
Re: making pragmas?
Message ID:
199911212127.VAA03755@bactrian.ni-s.u-net.com
Jeff Pinyan <japhy@pobox.com> writes:
>Is there something internally special about pragmas?  

Some are a tiny bit special.

>Specifically, is
>there any reason we can't make our own?

You need to get the names agreed if you ever expect your scripts or 
modules which use them to be available elsewhere - or if you don't want 
them to break when an official pragma of same name does something else.

-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons


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