On 8/25/07, Hans-Martin Mosner hmm@heeg.de wrote:
You might get away with ! which is a legal binary selector in current Smalltalk but is not used anywhere in a standard Squeak image.
No! I want that for my planned message send operator. :)
I'm still not convinced that object someMessage ! message1: arg1 ! message2 is that much better readable than ((object someMessage) message1: arg1) message2 especially since more than one or two levels of parentheses are often a sign of code smell.
I don't like it for that either. But:
SomeProcess ! someMessage
is ok for me because at least one language works this way already. :)