Stephane,

> Fun to see your answer before my post ;)
> Can you see into the future? because I have a lot of 
> questions for you then.

Oops. I *knew* I should've waited until I got your message...

[ := vs. _ ]
> I have the impression that this _ speed key could be solved 
> at the level of the IDE rather than the language. Imagine that
> the key ctrl _  produce := you would be as fast and we could
> get rid of that stuff.

Nice idea. Unfortunately, the underscore is a shifted character and
ctrl-shift is one of the most unconvenient combinations I can think of (I
know that there are probably some Squeak shortcuts using those but I just
never use 'em ;-)

No, seriously, I could certainly live without using the underscore but
colon-equal actually looks pretty ugly to me. I'd much rather use <- (even
though it's not ansi ;)

Oh, and by the way, the last time I checked VW for it I found that it *does*
support the left-arrow; just at its proper location in the Unicode range...

> Yes I agree when I saw that I said really cool. I started to 
> like it. Then I saw horrible code in an industrial project with
> 
>     {[ ablock capturing variables] [another block]
>      [ ablock capturing variables] [another block]
>      [ ablock capturing variables] [another block]
>      [ ablock capturing variables] [another block]
>      [ ablock capturing variables] [another block]} cond
> 
> The list was much more than tha and with nested cond ;(((((
> Here you could say anybody can write bad code sure.

Oh dear. That *is* ugly. No arguing about it.

Cheers,
  - Andreas