Proposal3: Make $_ a valid identifier character

Hannes Hirzel Hannes_Hirzel at compuserve.com
Sun May 28 20:31:23 UTC 2000


 

Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
wrote:
>> 
>> PROPOSAL
>> 
>> For better ANSI compatibility, I propose to allow _ (actually it's
printed 
>> as <- with the default font in Squeak) in identifiers.
>What a horrible idea. To hell with ANSI compatability! 

What is horrible about the idea of moving Smalltalk code more easily forth
and back between the different dialects of Smalltalk?

Hannes Hirzel





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