> Thank you Bert for the explanatory example code!
> 
> Wrt your comment on "the necessity to create newArray 
> before": this array existed before (after all, 'newArray' is 
> just a variable name, not a new
> object) and is the target of the operation. So your 
> suggestion does not fully translate.
> 
> [sorry, I seem to be quite alone defending HOM ;) anybody 
> plEASE don't take my comments personal :-]
> 
> /Klaus

Likely because Smalltalk is so expressive already, it'd take quite the
gain in expressibility to overcome the fact that it breaks the existing
regularity of the Smalltalk syntax.  Smalltalk isn't APL or J, not yet
anyway.