[squeak-dev] The Inbox: Compiler-nice.280.mcz

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Tue Feb 25 23:04:49 UTC 2014


Hi Tobias - I wasn’t particularly aiming anything at what you had written, merely replying to the nearest convenient email; please don’t take offence!


On 25-02-2014, at 2:50 PM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
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> 
> This is too much for me to actually like the arrow glyphs. Apart from ^ and _ already requiring shift, 
> losing those character would be more "meh" than "yay" for me. 

Likewise; I don’t see any real value in having _ and ^/ available for use in names when they have a reasonable place as markers for two very important concepts that need easily obtainable symbols.

> 
>> Either we have single symbols for these two rather important syntactical elements and accept that this takes out of circulation for general character usage, or we have to do the pascal thing and use long winded nonsense;
> 
> hey, we already have ctrl-shift-t and ctrl-shift-f inserting stuff in code…

True, and ctl-shift-char is just barely within my idea of acceptable and, of course, it pretty much has to be that way since shift-f is a simple char and ctl-f has become strongly bound to ‘find’ in most people’s mental maps.


>> 
>> So to (mis)quote Zaphod, “ten out of ten for cleverness, minus several million for style"
> 
> Didn’t aim for cleverness, just wanted to say "whether doing it or not, this way will work less than that”

email is a terrible medium for humour, especially 30 year old location and life-experience-specific humour. 

tim
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