For why, you'd have to ask Dan Ingalls (di).

Looks like most of the methods around brace expressions were added on
11/19/1999. I seem to recall something being announced to squeak-dev,
but I couldn't find it in the archives.



On 7/23/07, Blake <blake at kingdomrpg.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:27:21 -0700, subbukk <subbukk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Monday 23 July 2007 11:39 pm, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> >
> >> Now, at one point the compiler even supported this:
> >>
> >>      {a. b} := {1. 2}
> >>
> >> which I found cool but was considered evil, even by those who
> >> tolerate the braces ...
>
> What would this do? It looks like you're assigning a literal to another
> literal?
>
>