I don't mind trying to come up with less boilerplate syntax, but how does the reader of the code know when something is a HOM or a normal message? The above exa

I don't mind trying to come up with less boilerplate syntax, but how does the reader of the code know when something is a HOM or a normal message? The above example is valid syntax in existing Smalltalk, a Smalltalk developer would interpret it as collect returning a value that would be added to 5. I think this ambiguity is much worse than any advantage compactness might bring.