> My examples are not complaining that Smalltalk uses [] instead of {}, please reread what I wrote OK: > No spurious colon, dots sprinkled a bit everywhere, m

> My examples are not complaining that Smalltalk uses [] instead of {}, please reread what I wrote OK: > No spurious colon, dots sprinkled a bit everywhere, mysterious ":in" or pipe bar, square brackets. Just a very naked syntax. You seemed to be complaining about the square brackets, did I misread? Why were you mentioning the square brackets? My point was that there is nothing inherently "mysterious" about any of those things, except I guess if you're used to the cross-language conventions that have developed since smalltalk, which is fair (and except I don't think curly vs square brackets for blocks/closures is even one of those). But I wasn't trying to be rude or read you incorrectly. I suspect this conversation is going nowhere, that's fine, good day!