At 03:17 PM 02/10/01, you wrote:

>The ANSI discussions were in the context of adding {} as a new feature as 
>none to the commercial Smalltalk implementations supported it.

Not quite true. Gemstone/S supports this feature with a different syntax:
#[ <expr1> , <expr2> , ... ]  == { <expr1> . <expr2> .  ...}
Was Gemstone not represented on the committee?

--john


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John Dougan
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