Morph>>Delete

Avi Bryant avi at beta4.com
Fri Dec 5 00:57:04 UTC 2003


On Dec 4, 2003, at 4:52 PM, Alan Kay wrote:

> Lots of appearance things were nicer before the Smalltalk-80 release 
> efforts. I wasn't there at the time, but I think they decided 
> (probably rightly) to use the existing character set in the outside 
> world. And, today, it would be nice to do something like your 
> suggestion (maybe a different one) and many other cosmetic 
> possibilities, but several folks have pointed out that even a slight 
> deviation from unadorned text is not supported by all email clients 
> (sigh).

We could still use styled text within Squeak, and have conventions for 
writing code in plain text when necessary.  For example, I always write 
:= instead of _ when sending email, even though I much prefer the left 
arrow where it's supported.




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