From: 
"Ellen.Dickey" <[email protected]>  (occasional)
  To: 
[email protected]
  Date: 
Yesterday 08:38:13 pm
>>Note that there is no attempt to change oddities of Smalltalk syntax.

I apologize to the list for calling Smalltalk syntax "odd".

Coming from Scheme, I certainly know better.  

I am certainly for minimalist syntax.

I prefer (< lowBound x highBound) to ((lowBound < x) && (x < highBound))
and (+ 1/2 1/3 1/6)  to  (1/2) + (1/3) + (1/6)

What can I say, I am lazy and a bad typist.

Note that Scheme has zero (count 'em 0) precedence rules and 3+1/2i parses as 
a single number, not three numbers, two math "operations" and a coercion.

I did mention that I am only an occasional Smalltalk user and I have used a 
lot of programming languages.

Also, I am used to posting to systems which let me preview and exit my 
postings.  This was a draft.

Again, I apologize.

-KenD

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