Andy's comments and positioning...

[Stephen Quinn Barncard]

Good grief...you're asking them to rewrite the parser for 
appearances? Wouldn't that add another layer of abstraction and slow 
it down? I think there are far more important issues than to make the 
language "look" like Basic and C.

>Yes, please, if anyone at RunRev is reading this, please add support 
>for standard statement syntax such as
>
>x = y + z (instead of put y + z into x)
>x += 1 (instead of add 1 to x)
>x.myProperty = foo (instead of set myProperty of x to foo)
>
>Not supporting these standard statements make the language look a 
>bit "beginner-ish".
>
>-- Frank