Also I think you and I may mean different things by "syntax".
^ for all of the above, the possibility that it's reasonable to limit expressiveness in these ways for cognitive load reasons.
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I think the concise methods bit is really just about syntax. The others are fundamental semantic choices which are manifest in syntactic choices as well -- for example that super can't be abstracted over. Sometimes semantic choices constrain syntax.
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We considered toMethod and largely rejected it for time.
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