On Sep 18, 2007, at 18:09 , Jason Johnson wrote:
Oh no, are people really so strongly for ::?
I'm rather strongly against ".". And not only because the dot is already too overloaded in Smalltalk.
Dot-notation is becoming ubiquitous in "pop CS" to the point where people don't even admit there are alternatives. In one German state teaching "dot notation" to kids is made mandatory by the school administration, ruling out the use of Smalltalk as a teaching language. I kid you not.
Having it creep into Squeak would make this individual sad. If this means anything to anybody ;)
- Bert -