Hi, 2011/11/15 Thomas Sawyer <transfire / gmail.com>: > (a) plenty of other ways to define syntax. maybe best way is to separate it from def since it is optional, e.g. > > ¨Âéç æïï¨Óôòéîç> > ¨Âåæ æïï¨óôòéîç> .. > ¨Âîä I prefer method annotations to special syntax. > (b) not sure how it can honor duck typing. i think the whole idea is to (optionally) roast the duck! FYI, Scala supports statically checked duck typing. See http://markthomas.info/blog/?p=66. -- Shugo Maeda