Underscores in method names

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Thu Oct 17 05:37:10 UTC 2002


Nevin Pratt <nevin at smalltalkpro.com> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> I was wondering if anybody knew what the rationale for disallowing 
> underscores in method names for Squeak was.  For other dialects, this is 
> allowed.
Because the underscore is mapped to the assign arrow. Just like in
the old days when programmers were real programmers, and computers were
kept in cooled rooms.

tim
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