On 4-Feb-08, at 4:40 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>
> Ahh, you kids, forgetting your roots.  We greybeards understand that  
> "_" is
> actually the left arrow in the original fonts for the Xerox Parc  
> Smalltalk80
> Release 2 image, from which Squeak is derived (via Apple and Disney  
> and a cast
> of thousands).  That it now looks like "_" is merely an artifact of  
> applying a
> modern meaning for slot 95 in the ASCII table.

Exactly. And it's about time we used unicode properly and had the  
appropriate char for our assignment. This ':=" crap is just vile. What  
is this, Pascal?

I quite like the leftwards sqiggle arrow"⇜" Unicode 21DC and RTF8 E2  
87 9C but even plain boring  ← Leftwards Arrow unicode 2190 would be  
ok. And how about ⤴ arrow pointing rightwards then curving upwards  
unicode 2934 for return?


tim
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