Well I brought up the Array literals in the context of modern Smalltalk; it makes little sense to respond to that by criticizing a decades old version of Smalltalk. Dolphin is a virtually dead Smalltalk, died officially a while back and was then resurrected, but it's hardly the model of a modern Smalltalk anymore. Visual Works, Pharo, Squeak, and Gemstone are modern Smalltalk's and all have a fully functional array literal syntax.