Juan Vuletich wrote:
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>
> There's not a real consensus in this area. Many people (me included)
> really prefer the left arrow for assignment and will not accept others
> to prevent us from doing so. Please don't promise that. Switch to :=
> only if you want.

I usually agree with what you write, but this is simply wrong.  There is
not *unanimous* consensus that left-arrow should be deprecated, but when
has there ever been, in the Squeak community?  However, there is
certainly a consensus.  You're free to use an old/modified Squeak that
support underscore-assignment-rendered-as-an-arrow, but the community
has clearly decided otherwise (please don't make me dig for references,
but I will if I have to). 

You shouldn't muddy the waters for Squeak newcomers who haven't
experienced the history first-hand.  Underscore assignment is on the way
out.  Period.

I like the look of the left-arrow myself, but there's no reason that a
pretty-printer can't render it that way; unfortunately nobody has
stepped up to make that a reality.  On the other hand, I look forward to
when underscore-assignment is not only deprecated, but completely
disallowed, so that I can, for example, program OpenGL in Squeak using
identical constant names (eg: GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT instead of
GLColorBufferBit).

Cheers,
Josh

>
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
>