Re 3.7 moving to beta tomorrowish

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Mar 27 13:41:40 UTC 2004


Hi bill

I'm seriously flooded by work in this moment. So this is not reasonable 
for me to say yes.
But please consider doing it because this would be good.

stef
On 26 mars 04, at 23:11, Bill Schwab wrote:

> Avi, Stef,
>
> A change set, huh?  It would make a good Squeak project for me, but I 
> am nervous about two aspects of it.  First, I am not very familiar 
> with the construction of the Squeak development tools.  However, 
> starting with the goal of making _ insert := and then deleting := when 
>  the $= is deleted would a good way to get familiar with them.  I am 
> more concerned about my ability to to deal with what I see as the real 
> problem, which is the use of _ in the compiler and the appearance of 
> many of them in the sources.
>
> Could we make a deal?  Given some editor tweaks that take away the 
> extra typing and display the back arrow, would the powers that be 
> agree to fix the sources and compiler?
>
> Another thing that would fix pretty much my entire problem would be 
> inclusion of the existing fix that allows underscores to appear within 
> selectors (not at the beginning). Just getting that in the main 
> release would be a huge help to me.  However, I would like  to see the 
> rest happen too, and am willing to work on it.  If Stef is willing to 
> conspire with me. so much the better.
>
> Thanks for considering this!
>
> Bill
>
>
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