So that's a method that is empty except for ending in a period? That probably should be an error. If the point is to have the last line of a "real" method never end in a period, then I would have a problem. ________________________________________ From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of James Ladd [james_ladd@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:28 PM To: pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: [Pharo-project] Period at end of message pattern ? Hi All, While filing in some sources form a friend into Redline Smalltalk the compiler generated an error on the following message pattern (method signature): initializeBetween: aPitcher and: aBatter events: aCollectionOfEvents. The error was the trailing period "." This is acceptable in Pharo but not in the Blue Book definition. I think it should be an error in Pharo as well. What do you think? Rgs, James.