[m-rev.] [dotnet-foreign] diff: add pragma attribute

[Tyson Dowd]

On 23-May-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 23-May-2001, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > On 22-May-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > > On 18-May-2001, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > > > Here's the patch (against dotnet-foreign) for adding attributes.
> > > 
> > > Hmm, some documentation (i.e. a patch to doc/language_reference_manual.texi)
> > > would be good...
> > 
> > I'll add it to the wish list.  How much do you really need it?
> 
> Well, I can't review the patch until there's documentation
> that explains what the intended semantics of the new feature is.

Something along the lines of "pragma attribute associates an instance of
a type with a particular predicate or function".

This attribute can currently only be retrieved using the .NET Reflection
API.

> But apart from that, there's no particular urgent need.
> 
> It does need to be fixed before this gets merged onto the main
> branch, though.

Sure, that's understandable.

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