Squeak-dev/Squeak-web image v95-2

Matthew Fulmer tapplek at gmail.com
Wed Apr 4 06:58:45 UTC 2007


On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 09:59:27PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> On 3-Apr-07, at 9:54 PM, Joshua Gargus wrote:
> 
> >I'm looking forward to when underscore-leftarrow is REALLY REALLY  
> >gone and we can start having proper-looking OpenGL constants  
> >("GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX" instead of "GLModelviewMatrix").  I like the  
> >left-arrow too, but can't we please just leave it to the pretty- 
> >printer?
> Personally I *hate* underscore pseudopunctuation but what does it  
> have to do with using a proper leftarrow? We have unicode. Codepoint  
> 2190 apparently. Come to that we have codepoint 2191 for  a proper  
> uparrow as well. Time we used them. := is for Pascal weenies.

How could anyone type such a character? would we modify the
mass-produced keyboard, or create some partially obscure input
method? Of course, it would be easy with a pen. I don't
understand how Unicode will be anything other than a curiosity
as long as the keyboard stays around. Of course, that may have
something to do with living in the US, where nobody understands
culture.

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