At 13:10 20.06.2002 -0700, Roger Whitney wrote:
>Does anyone recall what Smalltalk-76 used instead of at:put:

Well, I wasn't there, but from Appendix A of the classical
<http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/St76/Smalltalk76ProgrammingSystem.h 
tml>
and other papers, I understand that St76 used a binary operator (that 
looked like a bullet) for #at:.  Furthermore, the leftarrow "_" was allowed 
to be the final part of a message pattern.  Imagine for a moment that "@" 
were the bullet, then Array had two methods

         Array >> @ index
and     Array >> @ index _ value

with selectors #@ and #@_ respectively.

HTH,
Helge