Must _ go like the Dodo?
Norton, Chris
chrisn at Kronos.com
Mon Mar 15 19:13:45 UTC 1999
....here's my $0.99... :-)
Frankly, I wouldn't mind losing the _ as an assignment operator. It is only
visible as an -> in the Squeak image; thus it is harder to read code in a
viewer that is not governed by Squeak rules (like in e-mail messages, on the
Web, or in any other text editor/viewer).
Of course, I didn't even know about the _ operator until I started using
Squeak. I learned to program Smalltalk on Digitalk V.
---==> Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Krasner [SMTP:krasner at objectshare.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 1999 1:51 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: Must _ go like the Dodo?
>
> When we made this sacrifice for ObjectWorks, we put ":=" on ctrl-g (as in
> "gets"). It helped ease the pain, but only a little.
>
> glenn
>
> At 12:44 PM 3/15/99 -0600, Mark Mayfield wrote:
> >I second the thought!
> >
> >Must the _ go???
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >> I don't know if others have this problem, but := is a key combination
> that
> >> I find slightly awkward, and often need to retype. _ is easy. Also,
> when
> >> I marvel at Squeak code (in BBEdit) _ appears is so clean, directional,
> and
> >> austere.
> >> Long live _ !
> >
> >
> >
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