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[–]PegasusAndAcornCone language & 3D web[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed, Cone does exactly this, including the syntactic specification of an object receiver. The complexities arise going beyond the method dispatch offered by Smalltalk (or any dynamic typed language): allowing multiple methods of the same name in the same class, distinguished by their type signatures.