Am 28.04.2006 um 11:51 schrieb Bert Freudenberg:

> Am 28.04.2006 um 11:47 schrieb stéphane ducasse:
>>>>
>>>>> Did the 3.9 team decide to adopt Berts underscore solution and,  
>>>>> if so, is there a plan to run his conversion for 3.9 which  
>>>>> converts the code from underscore assignment to :=?
>>>>
>>>> Yes but we have to pay attention since we are using MC and we do  
>>>> not know if we would not get loading order problems
>>>> if we would recompile everything (may be this is totally wrong  
>>>> what I'm saying since marcus already recompiled several times  
>>>> the image). So I have to check my fears :)
>>>
>>> Your fears may well be valid. What's really unpredictable when  
>>> loading multiple MC packages at once is the order of initialize  
>>> calls.
>>>
>>> This is not really related to this package, but we might want to  
>>> add the disabling of underscore assignments preference from  
>>> Croquet, so you notice any missed ones when recompiling.
>>
>> Yeap
>> do you have it somewhere?
>
> There is one which actually patches the fonts, but that's not  
> critical and safe to run twice.
>
> I rather meant that if packages are modified by converting  
> underscores and then are loaded together, it may be problematic.

Err, I completely misunderstood the question (I thought you were  
asking if I used an initialize method in my package).

No, I don't have a changeset for that, but it's really like a one- 
line change in the parser, someone would just have to look.

- Bert -