It's practically lisp-like in its minimalism. So why not go the extra yard and make it properly homoiconic and reap all the benefits of such a rigid, simplisti

It's practically lisp-like in its minimalism. So why not go the extra yard and make it properly homoiconic and reap all the benefits of such a rigid, simplistic syntax? The current syntax is the worst of both worlds - painful to read but disallowing macros. I don't want Apple to turn Obj-C into Perl but Obj-C is badly in need of a little syntactic sugar. Thankfully some of this is coming in the new collection literals and operator overloads.