The assignment character in 3.9 and onward
Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene
edgardec2001 at yahoo.com.ar
Thu Jun 8 11:33:55 UTC 2006
Ralph Johnson puso en su mail :
> Originally ALL Smalltalks used underscore (left arrow) as assignment.
> Smalltalk V was the first to use := instead, I think. VisualAge did
> it. VisualWorks converted about 1990, and I can't remember whether it
> came first or VisualAge. For awhile, a lot of VisualWorks code did it
> both ways, but eventually it all got converted to := and I must admit
> I was happy to find when I started Squeak to find that it still used
> the old left arrow.
Ralph:
All the post is very instructive.
I wonder why not use <- , two characters as := , but closer to original
idea.
Edgar
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