Bijan Parsia wrote:

> > What do you think it is in Ruby? Pointer arithmetic? a[1] sends the []
> > message to a. It's syntactic sugar, sure, but I've even seen a goodie
> > for squeak that allows exactly the same sugar; semantically it's  identical
> > to #at:.

> Ah, I wasn't sure, was punchy, and was just kidding :)

> I don't recall such a goodie, but what does *that* show?

http://swiki.gsug.org:8080/sqfixes/26.html

Not that it shows anything much, except perhaps that even Smalltalkers can
be at risk of cancer of the semicolon (me, I like both syntax and coffee
sans sweetening).

Avi