about method annotations and trait fixes

>>> I would like to know
>>>       - when the annotations of lukas will be pushed in 3.9
>>
>> I should have already done it. But I didn't. As soon as I find the
>> energy and the time, I hope next week.
>
> I could provide a final and last change-set (this would be the 3rd
> attempt then), if we can finally decide on the design. After a lot of
> dicussion with Andreas and Marcus I would suggest the following
> implementation:
>
> - Every compiled method references an instance of MethodAnnotation, a
> class providing a place for instance-variables that should have been
> put into CompiledMethod if this was possible.
>
> - MethodAnnotation has got an inst-var called pragmas, that holds a
> collection of Pragmas that are added by the compiler at compile-time
> from constructs like <foo>, <foo: 1>, <foo: 1 bar: 2>, etc and that
> can be also reprinted to source when decompiling the CompiledMethod.
>
> - MethodAnnotation has got an inst-var called properties, that is
> initialized to nil but that might hold an identity-dictionary where
> any kind of properties can be stored (or cached), such as source,
> parse-tree, author initials, etc. The properties do not correspond to
> something in the source-code and therefor do not require a change to
> the parser/compiler/decompiler. Maybe this var could also be left-out
> and we ask people to add i-vars consuming much less memory.
>
> What do you think? Can everybody be happy with that?
>
> Should I now do it the last time?
>
> Lukas
>
> --
> Lukas Renggli
> http://www.lukas-renggli.ch
>

>>> I would like to know
>>>       - when the annotations of lukas will be pushed in 3.9
>>
>> I should have already done it. But I didn't. As soon as I find the
>> energy and the time, I hope next week.
>
> I could provide a final and last change-set (this would be the 3rd
> attempt then), if we can finally decide on the design. After a lot of
> dicussion with Andreas and Marcus I would suggest the following
> implementation:
>
> - Every compiled method references an instance of MethodAnnotation, a
> class providing a place for instance-variables that should have been
> put into CompiledMethod if this was possible.
>

> - MethodAnnotation has got an inst-var called pragmas, that holds a
> collection of Pragmas that are added by the compiler at compile-time
> from constructs like <foo>, <foo: 1>, <foo: 1 bar: 2>, etc and that
> can be also reprinted to source when decompiling the CompiledMethod.
>
> - MethodAnnotation has got an inst-var called properties, that is
> initialized to nil but that might hold an identity-dictionary where
> any kind of properties can be stored (or cached), such as source,
> parse-tree, author initials, etc. The properties do not correspond to
> something in the source-code and therefor do not require a change to
> the parser/compiler/decompiler. Maybe this var could also be left-out
> and we ask people to add i-vars consuming much less memory.
>