On 3/11/2010 9:54 AM, Matthew Fulmer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 03:36:43PM +0100, Torsten Bergmann wrote:
>> Pharo allows you to use underscores in method selectors.
>> This is currently in Pharo 1.1 and not 1.0.
>>
>> Does that makes sense to have in Squeak trunk/Cuis too?
>
> I say support it. Cobalt and Croquet have supported this for
> years.

Err, no :-) Underscores are illegal in Croquet. Anywhere.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

> I have an experimental patch to MC1.5 that converts
> underscore assignments to := at load time, if the compiler
> raises a SyntaxError about them. How it works:
>
> - Parser throws a syntax error
> - MC catches the error
> - MC uses the parser to find underscore assignments (and not
>    underscores in strings/comments/names) and replace them
> - MC retries compiling the method
> - If a syntax error is raised again, MC lets it thru and you see
>    the Syntax Error dialog box
> - If any methods were changed during load, MC tells you about
>    them so you can review them and save the package
>
> Note that it's triggered by a SyntaxError, so this will not be
> done if the preference is to allow underscore assignments.
>
> Also, it only fixes things the parser things are disallowed
> underscore assignments, so it is quite conservative.
>
>
> I use this to prepare packages for loading into Cobalt (where
> underscores assignments are disallowed by default)
>