Nice. :)

On 8/27/07, Vassili Bykov <smalltalkbigot at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looking back at the number of messages in this thread, I figured I'd
> contribute a straw man implementation instead of adding to the
> polemics. The operator used for piping is :>, i.e.
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>   (1 to: 10) select: [:x | x odd] :> collect: [:x | x factorial]
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> which doesn't conflict with any syntactically valid messages, is
> reasonably suggestive and easy to type as both characters are shifted
> and are close to each other. Most importantly, it looks like a smiley
> thus improving user-friendliness.
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> Of course, it's quite easy to change the Scanner to recognize pretty
> much anything else as the #pipe token.
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> Cheers,
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> --Vassili
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