I don't know what the right answer is, but I really hate
having my _'s converted into left arrow's everywhere in 
Squeak, code panes, file lists, etc.  Its almost as much
fun as looking at Squeak code in an external tool and 
seeing the assignment operators show up as underscores.

I don't see how we will ever be successful at wide spread
acceptance of Squeak if we co-opt the underscore character.

How about:

1.  Change the fonts to restore underscore and move <-
    to another slot
2.  Make := be the assignment token
3.  Add a preference to display := using the <- glyph.
4.  Add a preference to map keystroke _ into := (which
    would display according to 3)

Stefan - thanks for opening this one up.  Its been on my
mind lately, but I was too chicken to write it down.

-david

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Rowledge [mailto:tim at sumeru.stanford.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 2:06 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: Proposal3: Make $_ a valid identifier character
> 
> 
> In message <4.3.1.2.20000528191319.00aa1580 at mail.netsurf.de> 
> you 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! 
> 
> -- 
> Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
> Bother, said Pooh, as his rucksack opened whilst skydiving
>