[pjmlp]

What I dislike is the {. .} annotations, Active Oberon also followed that path and I don't find it that great.

[throwaway_pdp09]

Some context would be nice - can you say a little more on that annotation please.

[pjmlp]

That is how Nim does pragmas,

https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#pragmas

And Active Oberon as well (here called flags),

http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/projects/a2/repository/raw/trunk/Lang...