On Nov 16, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote:

>> may be we should avoid ##
> 
> In Dolphin Smalltalk ## it is used as a prefix for compile time expressions.
> 
> Putting spaces (or even comments) between the #-character and the
> symbol/array/bytearray is accepted in some other Smalltalk dialects
> too, but I still think it is bad style.

yes

I think that we should keep ## if one day we need something special.

>> because I think that this is not smalltalk (did not check the standard)
>> and I do not see an usage for now.
> 
> The Smalltalk standard has a very restrictive syntax. The Pharo
> compiler is very permissive. For example it allows an arbitrary number
> of statement separators, something that no other Smalltalk allows.

you mean . . . 

I would  really make it less permissive because these are variations with no 
value.

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