I realized that the preference may not be what you suggest.
In that case propose an enh. Indeed this is important that all the  
code is store using one convention.

On 4 juin 06, at 09:55, stéphane ducasse wrote:

> Have a look there is a preference.
> Now for harvesting purpose this is highly important that we get the  
> same convention in the source code.
>
> Stef
>
> On 4 juin 06, at 02:05, Duncan Mak wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> What is the concensus to the assignment character issue in 3.9?
>>
>> I understand the desire to let the underscore be underscore, and  
>> not hijack it to be <-, I agree with that 100%.
>>
>> However, I believe that quite a few of us still prefer to see the  
>> <- displayed instead of the newer :=. At least, I'd prefer a 2  
>> keypresses than 3 keypresses (shift, semicolon, equal) for  
>> entering the assignment operator.
>>
>> I propose the following:
>>
>> 1) Outside of the code display within Squeak, always use :=  
>> because the <- is not available anywhere else.
>>
>> 2) Inside Squeak, let it be a preference to allow the user to  
>> choose between := and <- for the glyph used to display the  
>> assignment operator.
>>
>> 3) Add Ctrl-= as an additional keybinding for entering the  
>> assignment operator. This way, there's a 2-keypress way for  
>> entering assignment again.
>>
>> Would it be a big performance hit if the source code is always  
>> stored using :=, and add a method to StringHolderView or  
>> PluggableTextView to convert from := to -> when displaying code?
>>
>> Duncan.
>>
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