Must _ go like the Dodo?
Russell Allen
russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com
Tue Mar 16 01:41:02 UTC 1999
Hi
>At 9:04 AM -0800 3/15/99, Dan Ingalls wrote:
>>
>>I think this is the way to go. I would not try to deal with a minus sign
>>here, but underbar should be usable when we drop the old assignment. [I
>>don't plan to do this until v3.0 because it implies a change of the
>>sources]. I have been wanting dotted global names for quite a while.
Will the up arrow mapping to "^" also be changed?
>
>While I am very happy to hear about the coming work on modularity, I am
>dismayed to learn that _ is on the outs. That's too bad! Finally an
>assignment symbol I like, and now it is slated for destruction.
>
>I don't know if others have this problem, but := is a key combination that
>I find slightly awkward, and often need to retype. _ is easy. Also, when
>I marvel at Squeak code (in BBEdit) _ appears is so clean, directional, and
>austere.
Didn't the earlier versions of Smalltalk use even more "non-standard"
characters, like little hands pointing etc? It does seem a pity that just
as the rest of the world moves to Unicode, Squeak is moving to 7-bit ASCII.
:(
>
>Long live _ !
>
>--Maurice
>
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> Maurice Rabb 773.281.6003 Stono Technologies, LLC Chicago, USA
Long live _ and ^ !
Russell.
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Russell Allen
russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com
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