From:  Dean Swan at 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 at mitel.com






Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> on 05/29/2000 05:21:31 PM

Please respond to squeak at cs.uiuc.edu

To:   squeak at 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 at 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
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