Squeak-dev/Squeak-web image v95-2

Lex Spoon lex at lexspoon.org
Sat Apr 7 13:45:59 UTC 2007


tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> writes:
> Make the parser accept the unicode leftarrow as assign; leave the
> ':=' for backcompat.
> Make fileout to text convert leftaror to := for plausible human
> readability and ascii compat.
> Make filein convert := to leftarrow for aesthetic compat.
> Make a hotkey to insert leftarrow. Remember, the $= key is just a
> hotkey that is already set for you.
> Let people chose a suitable assign hotkey. Perhaps cmd-=? Perhaps alt-
> \? I don't really care at this stage.
> Profit.


This approach will work.  However, we could instead not do all that,
and use pure ASCII.  ASCII is simple, sufficient, and breathtakingly
good at interop.


Lex




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