fixing undescores

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa ragnar.hojland at linalco.com
Mon Oct 17 08:10:00 UTC 2005


On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 09:55:46PM +0200, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote:
> st?phane ducasse wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I do not want to open another war but we would like to use
> >
> >http://source.impara.de/underscore/
> >
> >to fix the fonts and the packages of the image to use consistently :=
> >as offered by the package of Bert.
> >
> I'm all for it. Although I liked the left-arrow symbol when I was first 
> introduced to Smalltalk, it is a real anachronism by now. Wherever we 
> present source code textually, it should conform to current standards. 
> Graphical representations are a different matter, of course.
> I don't know how many existing MC packages still use _, these would have 
> to be fixed as well...
> Maybe if the fonts were changed, people would start using := more (since 
> _ assignment looks ugly) and _ assignment could be phased out with 
> Squeak 5.0...

Well, I'll be the first (and only one?:) to say that I like _ as an
assignment operator, at least that way it is useful for something.
:= is ugly (and wasteful;)

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