<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Damien Pollet</b> <<a href="mailto:damien.pollet@gmail.com">damien.pollet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Period has a potential conflict with expression separator, and<br>double-colon could be kept for variadic messages or argument-related<br>stuff (currently, when there is a colon, an argument is not far, so it<br>would be nice to keep this association).
<br><br>What about underscore, since it's not used elsewhere in the syntax ;-)<br>Kernel_Array looks like an identifier, Kernel _ Array can be a binary message...<br></blockquote></div><br>Period works okay if Period followed by whitespace is an expression separator, and period followed by a printable character can be part of a name.
<br><br>What's a variadic message?<br><br>I'm not sure what the status of underscores are. Currently I think they're still a hack for the back-arrow in the squeak image, and from what I hear they are not accepted in Croquet? It is possible to free them up and make people use either a Unicode back-arrow :-) or :=.
<br><br>Michael.<br>