I feel like Objective-C is so close in spirit to Smalltalk, and with each syntax revision gets closer and closer, yet the utter simplicity of replacing "[foo: b

I feel like Objective-C is so close in spirit to Smalltalk, and with each syntax revision gets closer and closer, yet the utter simplicity of replacing "[foo: bar];" with "foo bar." I suspect will never happen. Too shocking for strict C programmers. I'd be totally happy to restrict traditional C-derived syntax to @ugly{ } blocks if it made more bold syntax changes possible.