<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 2019-05-29, at 7:54 PM, Chris Muller <<a href="mailto:asqueaker@gmail.com" class="">asqueaker@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">So is it okay / advisable to go beyond the original spec if it lets me?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I would prefer an interface that still looks like message sending in the first place. I suppose there are some cases where the parser (or compiler) let's you do something that might just be an oversight. I would consider "-@+" way too cryptic.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Yes, I wouldn't ever use it. It was just a test to see if the<br class="">compiler would accept it.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">That's the path you would be walking on if you follow that:<br class=""><br class="">self ><>.<br class="">self »-(¯`·.·´¯)->.<br class="">self --------{---(@.</blockquote></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>Eeeek.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Of course, the burning question is whether unicode emoji char points are valid for unary/binary selectors? </div><div class=""> foo 👈 42 🧛♂️ + myThing <span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 28px;" class="">🇬🇧</span><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji";" class=""> </span>thatThing</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ie foo := 42 vampire + myThing union thatThing </div><div class=""><br class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 28px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Apple Color Emoji";" class="">🧐</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Almost Smalltalk-72 ?</div><div class=""><br class="">tim<br class="">--<br class="">tim Rowledge; <a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org" class="">tim@rowledge.org</a>; <a href="http://www.rowledge.org/tim" class="">http://www.rowledge.org/tim</a><br class="">C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce.<br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>