Proposal3: Make $_ a valid identifier character
Richard A. O'Keefe
ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz
Tue May 30 22:45:31 UTC 2000
From: Bert Freudenberg <bert at isgnw.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De>
So provided that we want explicit word separators, I would suggest using a
hyphen instead of the dash/minus sign, which is typographically correct,
esthetically nice and also resolves the parser problem. Fortunately,
Squeak's MacRoman character set already has that glyph:
(Character value: 16rD0).
For input, a minus inserted after a letter would produce a hyphen,
while after any other letter it would become a minus.
If Squeak were all alone in the world, that would be just about *perfect*.
But it isn't. There are other Smalltalks, and a Smalltalk standard.
I don't really like _any_ barriers to swiping useful code that happened to
have been written for other Smalltalks. Do you?
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