On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a developer, I, too, always use the standard brace-notation for
> creating Arrays and will continue to do so.  This has never been about
> introducing an enhanced-API to developers.  My advocacy relates to
> exposing an API like this to a _non-developer_ user:
>
>  myDatabase
>    select: column1, column2, column3
>    where: [ : each | ... ]
>
> so that this string, as entered by the user, without concern for
> brace-notation, can be simply evaluated by Smalltalk.

Do you have a specific application in mind for this? Is there some
reason it needs to be added to the base to be useful for your
application?