[squeak-dev] Authorize upArrow in binary symbols

Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
Wed Feb 26 21:59:58 UTC 2014


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> On Feb 26, 2014, at 9:45 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 25 February 2014 15:52, Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ah, the sacrificial underscore. I like the left arrow and the up arrow a
>> lot, but I see how this could mess one up when one has code with underscores
>> in it.
>> 
>> I don't have any code with underscores in it. They don't seem to fit the
>> language stylistically to my eye.
> 
> Ah, but which one? Underscore as assignment? Or selectors with underscores?
> 
> (My personal vote? Big fat -1 on underscore-as-assignment: I think
> it's really ugly. +1 on underscore-in-selector, because I like the
> freedom, and because it reduces pain when working with
> underscore_using_languages.
> 
> I like names like "slot-value", but we're not writing lisp here...)
> 
> frank

To clarify: I prefer "underscore" assignment to the Pascal style, but I use the left arrow glyph, not the underscore glyph, so my code hasn't got any underscores in it:P

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