> And FWIW, in GNU Smalltalk even though #(...) is obviously valid, I
> removed the #(abc) shortcut for symbols.  The only words without sharps
> are exactly true, false, nil.
> 
> Paolo

OTOH the current behavior in Squeak allows fun things, such as having 
lisp code cleanly stored as an array of symbol:

prog := #(funcall (lambda (x) (sqrt x)) 5) asCons

(more here: http://www.zogotounga.net/comp/squeak/lispkit.htm)


Stef