On 8/25/07, Hans-Martin Mosner <hmm at heeg.de> wrote:
>
> You might get away with ! which is a legal binary selector in current
> Smalltalk but is not used anywhere in a standard Squeak image.

No!  I want that for my planned message send operator. :)

> I'm still not convinced that
> object someMessage ! message1: arg1 ! message2
> is that much better readable than
> ((object someMessage) message1: arg1) message2
> especially since more than one or two levels of parentheses are often a
> sign of code smell.

I don't like it for that either.  But:

SomeProcess ! someMessage

is ok for me because at least one language works this way already. :)