[Squeakland] Real beginner's questions!
Bert Freudenberg
bert at impara.de
Fri Mar 26 14:45:42 PST 2004
Actually, Shelagh was refering to the vertical bar "|" character. Its
position depends on your keyboard layout. For example, on a German
keyboard it is accessed by pressing "option" (on a PC that's "AltGr")
together with "<".
- Bert -
Am 26.03.2004 um 14:19 schrieb John Voiklis:
> You guessed correct, Shelagh; it is in fact the underscore keystroke.
> Another operator for this requires combining a colon and equal sign,
> like so...
>
> :=
>
> Usage looks like...
>
> | myBook |
> myBook := BookMorph new.
> myBook openInWorld.
>
> It adds one keystroke to the operation, but may be more intelligable to
> non-squeakers.
>
> Best,
>
> John
>
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Shelagh Manton wrote:
>
>> In the various books on Squeak and Smalltalk that I've read, they use
>> a
>> vertical stroke to delineate variables. where is this on my keyboard?
>> Is it
>> a character that changes in Squeak when you type it like the
>> underscore?
>>
>> Shelagh (who has decided that even if my son does not want to use
>> squeak I
>> do )
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