Early Self Syntax

[Michael Feathers]

IIRC, I read someplace that the earliest version of Self was
text-based.  I was wondering if the syntax is described any place.  I
written the engine for a small prototype-based language, but I haven't
defined a syntax yet.  There are a couple of directions I can go in.
I can make it similar to B (predecessor of C) but frankly, this is
just for fun.  I don't think I want to write the parser for something
like that when it would be far easier to adopt Smalltalk/Self syntax.

I've considered something like this, C-ish but with anonymous
functions, but it strikes me as rather ugly:

testmaker.make = (){
        var test
        test.passed = false
        test.setup = (){}
        test.teardown = (){}
        test.runTest = (result){}
        test.assert = (message, condition){
                condition.ifTrue((){
                        passed = false
                        self.message = message
                })
        }
        test.run = (result){
                setup()
                runTest()
                tearDown()
                passed.ifFalse((){
                        result.addFailure(message)
                })
        }
        test
}

Thoughts?

Michael