> In short:
> 
>     * Smalltalk claims to be object oriented and I regard it as a
>       serious flaw that the object ID is not explicitly visible.

In my view, Smalltalk is object oriented: the object is the object is 
the object. If an ID was needed, Smalltalk would be Dictionnary 
oriented. Precisely because we don't need an ID, objects are first 
class. They stand alone and reference one another, they don't need to be 
all uniformly referenced by an uber-object.

my 2 cents,

Stef