Jay Hardesty schrieb:
I know this thread is a bit stale now, but didn't see what the likely conclusion of this issue is meant to be
I see that 3.9 (7055) displays underscores - I installed the Shout package (to get syntax highlighting back) and see that there is a preference for underscore vs :=. Is it the idea that the appearance of the left arrow will eventually be built into the code editor, and for the interim those who prefer left-arrow should use bear with the underscore actually appearing in code?
Would like to vote that that the the elegance, and combined millennia's worth of neural wiring among smalltalkers who've become accustomed to the left-assignment key far outweighs the danger of off-putting newbies.
If it's too difficult to work it into 3.9 for technical reasons, then no complaints there (especially since I'm not volunteering to make it happen) - just don't think that purported "confusion" is a good reason to deny use of left-arrow as an option. I strongly disagree with the idea that having Paragraph editor "magically" display one or the other is somehow a bad thing. Just my $0.02.
The arrow glyph is still in the (strike-) fonts:
Character value: 16r8F
I guess one could make Shout display that instead of the underscore.
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