On 18/09/2007, Michael van der Gulik mikevdg@gmail.com wrote:
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.
granted
What's a variadic message?
With unknown number of arguments (e.g. implicitely passing a collection of values). It's not in smalltalk but Ian Piumarta thought of in for Pepsi, and it is a plausible future extension.
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 :=.
Well my suggestion was more a joke, knowing that there would be technical problems because _ is not completely eliminated yet. But still, it would be nice to reclaim that character for other purposes.