[squeak-dev] Re: keeping arrow for assignment operator

nicolas cellier ncellier at ifrance.com
Thu Mar 12 19:50:50 UTC 2009


Joshua Gargus <schwa <at> fastmail.us> writes:

> we could have a plebiscite on some issues like this.  The whole
> community could vote "yes", "no", and "don't care" to this and other
> questions, and the issue would be settled once and for all.  I could be
> wrong, but I think that you'd be unhappy with the result for this
> particular question 
> 

I strongly prefer leftArrow for expressivity, readability...
...and for avoiding stupid errors like myTemp = 2.

But I consider external world reasons stronger:
- external fonts
- external encoding
- other dialects

The underscore statu quo is just crazy.
I would vote for suppression from modern Squeak, sorry Juan...




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