On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:35:43 -0700, Jason Johnson  
<jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think the "implicit self" concept has been very successful in
> practice.  Last I heard, in C++ the best practices were to always
> explicitly call this.

One rarely sees "Self" in Delphi. The constant references to "self" is one  
of the clunkier things about Smalltalk, in my view, and is inconsistent to  
boot (you have to use self to access methods but not fields?).

> It does need a powerful way of packaging (perhaps what VW has is the
> way to go?), multi-methods like Lisp has would be good if one could
> figure out a syntactical way of specifying that and I think adding
> macros to the standard could be nice as well.  But beyond that I
> really can't think of anything I would change syntax-wise.

I've always felt macros tended to obscure things, but then I've only used  
them in things like the C-family and PL/I.