VSE supported them as well. The ANSI committee left support for underscores in identifiers as a platform dependent feature. 

The only use for them in VSE was in operating system interface external classes.

On Mar 12, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Alan Knight wrote:

> +1
> 
> I note that VisualWorks, and I think various other Smalltalks have supported the ability to use underscores in selectors for many years, but it is quite rare to see them. 
> 
> At 10:31 AM 2010-03-12, Torsten Bergmann wrote:
>> Hi Sam,
>> 
>> >Supporting underscores in selectors makes a significant change to how the
>> >code looks to the eyes
>> >You can argue its not that important, or folks should just change and 
>> >enjoy it, but it does impact readability.
>> 
>> You seem to miss my point here. I AGREE with you regarding readability
>>  - since I like well written Smalltalk code in the same way you like it. 
>> 
>> A #fooBar is always better than a #foo_Bar! Nothing said about it -
>> I have no beard but appreciate reading/writing clean Smalltalk 
>>  code since 1994...
>> 
>> 
>> BUT:
>> 
>> CALL_ME_BACK: is also more readable than CALLMEBACK in an 
>> FFI callback, especially when the C function has the same name
>> 
>> The other Smalltalks allowed to use underscores in selectors 
>> and still have well written and readable Smalltalk methods. 
>>     
>> You may argue that this is due to their commercial nature -
>> but I believe it's because Smalltalk people really use this 
>> feature carefully.
>>      
>> I think you fear that after introducing this change anybody 
>> is instantly_switching_to_writing_ALL_its_method_selectors_with_underscores
>> - which I just doubt! 
>> 
>> Therefore I would like to go the way Bert nicely described as:
>>   Supporting them: +1
>>   Using them: -1
>> 
>> It's an interesting discussion - I should have read the warning in 
>> Ians original changeset more clearly. It said:
>> 
>>   "Use of this changeset has been officially condemned by the 
>>    Independent Board of Syntactical Aesthetics for Squeak."  :)
>> 
>> >Just 2r11 from a "legacy" Smalltalker who, yes, still uses MVC, albeit
>> >running in parallel in a custom VM on a 64-core Tilera chip.  ;-)
>> 
>> How is the project going, havent heard from it since 2008?
>> 
>> ></previous_post_eaten_by_LotusNotes>
>> 
>> Since Notes-UI is written in Java I think underscores are OK here
>> 
>> Bye
>> T.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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