1.6 features

[Edward C. Jones]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Miki Tebeka <mtebeka at intel.com> writes:
>
> > Any pointers to the new 1.6 features (mainly gc)?
>
> See http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/python/writing/new-python/
>
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)

How do languages in which everything is an object handle
"'moshe'.find('sh')"?  It is normal that literals are treated as the
name of an instance? How does Smalltalk handle this? Might we
eventually see "1.__radd__(2)"?

Thanks,
  Ed Jones