Hi goran


> And of course it is a hassle that there obviously is no arrow to the 
> left in the
> fonts of today. (I assume)
my point is simply that if 99% of the world font do not have this 
behavior why do we have
to have it.
Why should we be so different


>> I mean that I started to used the arrow for my book and then I decide
>> to use a slighty
>> bigger fonts for kids and I got an underscore.....Imagine my
>> frustration to change everything
>
> Not that it matters to the discussion - but it sounds like a "search 
> and
> replace"-thing.

Apparently you do not know that you have screen shots in a book


>
>> but I'm certainly too stupid because I should have just tweak all the
>> fonts (you know the normal stuff
>> that you should do if you are in a cool open-source movement, the do 
>> it
>> syndrome).
>
> No, of course not. But still - you make it sounds like streamlining is 
> always
> the way to go. I don't agree. If that was the case then we would have 
> scrapped
> keyword syntax years ago because obviously all the "flies" out there 
> use
> fn(x,y)-syntax.
>
> So we are talking about a balance here - and it is IMHO not *obvious* 
> that the
> arrow is only a bad thing. You make it sound like people who don't 
> agree with
> you are mad men... ;-)
>>
>
> Hehe, come on now. Squeak has a completely superbly "strange" and 
> different UI
> framework and you think we would make Squeak more approachable by 
> changing the
> arrow?! :-) :-)

Yes. I can type code in any code editing tools and in any fonts and it 
will look the same.

> Anyway, forget about all this and give me/us a proposal on what you 
> want. If you
> want to remove the arrow altogether and replace it with ":=" then I am 
> at least
> against it.

I would like to have one character or two I do not care that is easy to 
get in any normal
fonts, without having to tweak it, in any size. Is this wish not normal?


stef