Hi david

I'msure that I'm replying to your questions;) but I think that this is 
something I learned while playing with the idea of OOPAL.

The key idea behind oopal is that this is a generalization of message 
passing.
You will send a message to an array or collection and the message will 
be sent to all the elements of the collection.


Avi I forwarded your question to philippe because he is the expert and 
we always thought that we wanted spppppeeeeeeed hence were thinking 
about modifying the vm because array of integer, booleans and treated 
in a special way.


On 16 févr. 04, at 04:40, David Farber wrote:

>
> Andreas -- Doesn't this fundamentally break Smalltalk's simple 
> Object-Message syntax?
>
> In the case of [each x add: y], each is not an object and x is not a 
> message.
>
> How about [x each add: y], etc.?
>
> david