Hi Richard, thanks, comparing Modifiers to the annotations and attributes in other languages indeed puts this into a perspective that makes more sense to me. It seems I have assumed a broader scope for modifiers (maybe because “modify” sounds much stronger than “annotate” or “attribut…ize”). So I conclude the goal is not to necessarily to remove _all_ kind of pragmas, but only maybe those that fit the pattern (e.g. don’t affect parsing and renaming). Is that right? So my straw man “could qualified imports be modifiers” is simply out of scope (heh). Especially the potential use case for plugins (which do benefit from an extensible, namespaced scheme that does not require changes to parsing) – essentially a variant of the ANN pragma – is convincing. Turning back to NoFieldSelectors, however, I notice that NoFieldSelectors _does_ affect renaming already, because it affects whether a symbol with the field’s name is in scope (which, in particular, has further effects with implicit binders etc…), doesn't it? So would modifiers, if we had them, even work here? Cheers, Joachim -- Joachim Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de http://www.joachim-breitner.de/