<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:33 AM, K. K. Subramaniam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:subbukk@gmail.com">subbukk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Thursday 11 March 2010 10:49:30 pm Ralph Boland wrote:<br>
> I much prefer arrows to ':=' and will continue to use them<br>
> in my private code as long as I can.<br>
> However, I accept that Squeak is converting to the use of<br>
> ':='. But this conversion only make sense if the intent<br>
> is to eventually disallow the use of '_' (arrow) for<br>
> assignment so that it can be used in variable names<br>
> and method names.<br>
IMHO, both := and _ are wrong choices. To be consistent with selector<br>
conventions, it should have been =: ( for assign:). But I guess it is too late<br>
now.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ha! The sound of one hand clapping. Excellent, Subbu!</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Subbu<br>
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