Excellent idea.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Romain Robbes</b> <<a href="mailto:romain.robbes@gmail.com">romain.robbes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="">We already have a way to display assignments as either _ or :=, right?<div><br></div><div>So if a pipe is equivalent to a parenthesized expression, why not having</div><div>a preference to display it as a pipe or something else?
</div><div>The parser would have to be modified, but the accepted source code would stay with parentheses.</div><div><br></div><div>If you get fancy, you could also let people choose what their "pipe" should look like ;-).
</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Romain</div><div><br><div><div><div>On Sep 4, 2007, at 6:06 PM, Ramon Leon wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">
<div style="margin: 0px;">Disregarding the fact that I am against a grammar change of<span> </span></div> </blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;">Smalltalk<span> </span></div> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0px;">
for</div><div style="margin: 0px;">this:</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Using "->" would be... eh, pretty daft! ;)</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">
<br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">(Considering that we already use that particular token for<span> </span></div> </blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;">something<span> </span></div> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0px;">
else)</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">regards, Göran</div> </blockquote><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Oops. :)<span>
</span>Then I change my vote to: <span> </span>some variation with a > (e.g. =></div> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0px;">= :> |>).</div> </blockquote></blockquote><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">
<br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">I actually like Vassili's suggested :>, it's unused and implies the flow</div><div style="margin: 0px;">nicely.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">
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