On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, David Farber wrote:

>
> You know, I've read several of the Self papers, but I'd never had access
> to a running Self system. I've certainly got some of Self's philosophy
> in mind, but I'm not up on what syntactic changes/extensions it made
> from Smalltalk. All the stuff on object creation that I remember reading
> about was via the Object explorer in the Morphic GUI.

The syntax is fairly similar to your examples - see
http://research.sun.com/research/self/release/Self-4.0/Tutorial/Language/SyntaxAndSemantics/LiteralObjects.html