Bert's as Pipe in not enough for me .... (even if I think if a beautiful hack).

The practical reason is that you don't want to see an exclamation mark "!" become a question mark "?" just because there was the asQuestion keyword before.

But my main reason for the pipe is that I want a culture change. 

I'd like a more functional Smalltalk.

It's a culture change that I want. 

Now. Considering that I'm new in here I do not pretend change happens today.

I like what I see in squeak: the environment it's a like `a back to the future`. It's incredible that the industry has not yet learned the lesson. It's almost 40 years ! 

But .. there are gray areas.

From a first look at the collection libraries, it seems to me that there is a LOT of bloat. Really really a LOT.

I bet that Ocaml's collections can do the same things with an order of magnitude of less of code.

This is bad.

Other minor critics I would do is that while the environment is close to perfection, it somehow feels like you are in you own magic wonderland separated from the rest of the world. 

I've tried to clearly expose all the arguments of why the pipe could become the cornerstone of functional compositions in smalltalk AND the beginning of a new even more powerful Smalltalk... and by the way the counter arguments were a bit mild or close to non-existent.

Now I'm looking at the Morphic tutorials :-) ... I feel like child playing with toys

Let me go play now ! 

Oh, how much fun ! Oh, a child's life ...

Fabio