On 20.09.2009, at 05:00, Ross Boylan wrote:

> First, can I do something so that _ will be accepted as a regular
> character, at least for the import and perhaps beyond?

Yes, hack the parser.

> I wanted to use _ as a way of indicating  a method was private

If you name a method pvtSomething, the compiler checks that it is sent  
only to self.

> Second, what is the preferred way to indicate assignment, _ or := ?

:= is preferred over _.

There is no decision yet about supporting ←, and if so, if this  
should be preferred over :=.

> Third, given something in squeaksource that needs a fix up, how does  
> one
> do that?

Unzip the mcz, remove snapshot.bin, edit source.st, re-zip.

- Bert -