> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Yoshiki Ohshima
> 
> I believe I have seen Dan Ingalls posted about the syntax here before...
The
> essence of the message was that a block is still like a method, and they
kind of
> have keyword message pattern, except that the keyword part is null
(0-length)
> string.  In this regard, allowing spaces after a colon follows the
principle.
> 
> I thought that why we don't allow keywords longer than 0, actually.
> One could say:
> 
> [keyword1: arg1 keyword2: arg2 | ...]
> 
> to annotate each parameter of a block.

Never heard that explanation.  That makes perfect sense!  Learn something
every day.  Thanks!

Ron

> 
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> -- Yoshiki
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