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Brent
Dec. 7, 2024, morning

Smalltalk has unary and binary operators, and adds "keyword" operators of the form "o1 foo: o2 bar: o3", read "foo colon bar colon", and that have two or more operands. In fact, the language has no built-in conditional, using keyword operators in expressions like "boolObject ifTrue: closureObject1 ifFalse: closureObject2" instead.

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