From: Dean Swan@MITEL on 05/31/2000 12:34 PM
Tim, Sign me up too. The complete lack of underscores in identifiers (or anywhere else, for that matter) is one of the reasons I like Smalltalk. IMO, underscores could be rename "uglyscores", and here I am stuck with one of the buggers in my e-mail address! :-( It always sounds awkward to me when I have to give someone my e-mail address over the telephone.
-Dean dean_swan@mitel.com
Tim Rowledge tim@sumeru.stanford.edu on 05/29/2000 05:21:31 PM
Please respond to squeak@cs.uiuc.edu
To: squeak@cs.uiuc.edu cc: (bcc: Dean Swan/Ogd/Mitel)
Subject: Re: Proposal3: Make $_ a valid identifier character
In message Pine.A41.4.21L1.0005290734090.57388-100000@login5.isis.unc.edu you wrote: [snip]
Or, moreToThePoint, InterCapping *is* HowSmalltalkWorks, and, as far as I'm concerned, it reallyImportant to preserve the LookAndFeel of Smalltalk, at least in StandardSmalltalkCode.
[snip]
And, *if* we have to have littleLinesInOurIndentifiers, I'd much prefer the lisp/scheme style-of-using-dashes than using_those_cursed_underscores.
Bijan, welcome to the Society for the Preservation of the Smalltalk Assignment.
tim -- Tim Rowledge, tim@sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim To define recursion, we must first define recursion.