Accessing Annotation Pragma Components

A few accessors for parts of a Pragma instance have already been mentioned and illustrated, but will be repeated here. There are accessors both for the annotation pragma itself and for its containing method.

Messages for accessing the method containing an annotation pragma are:

method

Returns the compiled method containing the annotation pragma.

methodClass

Returns the class of the method containing the annotation pragma.

selector

Returns the selector of the method containing the annotation pragma.

Messages for accessing the parts of the pragma itself are:

argumentAt: anInteger

Returns the argument at anInteger from the collection of arguments to the annotation pragma keywords.

arguments

Returns the collection of arguments to the annotation pragma.

keyword

Returns the keyword (selector) for the annotation pragma.

message

Returns a Message formed from the pragma keyword and arguments.

numArgs

Returns the number of arguments.