Jay Hardesty schrieb:
> 
> I know this thread is a bit stale now, but didn't see what the
> likely conclusion of this issue is meant to be
> 
> I see that 3.9 (7055) displays underscores - I installed the Shout
> package (to get syntax highlighting back) and see that there is
> a preference for underscore vs :=.  Is it the idea that the appearance
> of the left arrow will eventually be built into the code editor, and for
> the interim those who prefer left-arrow should use bear with the
> underscore actually appearing in code? 
> 
> Would like to vote that that the the elegance, and combined
> millennia's worth of neural wiring among smalltalkers who've become 
> accustomed to the left-assignment key far outweighs the danger
> of off-putting newbies. 
> 
> If it's too difficult to work it into 3.9 for technical reasons, then no
> complaints there (especially since I'm not volunteering to make it
> happen) - just don't think that purported "confusion" is a good reason to 
> deny use of left-arrow as an option.  I strongly disagree with the idea that
> having Paragraph editor "magically" display one or the other is somehow 
> a bad thing.  Just my $0.02.

The arrow glyph is still in the (strike-) fonts:

	Character value: 16r8F

I guess one could make Shout display that instead of the underscore.

- Bert -