Posted by Sean P. DeNigris on May 13, 2015; 1:46pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/funny-idea-Symbol-vs-Selector-tp2335774p4826193.html

Igor Stasenko wrote

Symbol + ??? => Selector

give me a strong reason.

i like the idea of shrinking a Symbol's protocol and putting it into
lean and clean place - Symbol.

While fixing Issue 15523: "Code Cruft Rule Only Matches One-Liners", I reeeeeally wanted:
  Selector
    UnarySelector
    BinarySelector
    KeywordSelector
so that I could double dispatch. It made me remember this old interesting thread. So, in addition to the conceptual clarity reification would provide, this provided a clear (to me) case of technical benefit. We could eliminate the ~20 or so senders of isUnary, ~20 of isBinary, and ~20 isKeyword in the Kernel for a start...