This brings up another issue (of much controversy)...should underscore
be dropped as the assignment operator?

A few years ago I argued against dropping it because it was something
that made Squeak distinctive...but recently, having to work in multiple
Smalltalk dialects, I've started using := routinely...it's just too
frustrating to go back and forth.

So, now I'd say let's adopt a more standard type face that agrees with
the rest of the world for our fonts, and switch to := for assignment.
Either that, or we should come up with a Squeak keyboard that has keys
on it for assignment and return.  Either way, I think using keyboards
designed for a different character set than we have in Squeak is not
good.  Either the keyboards need to change, or the character set we're
using needs to change.

Just MHO.

- Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Chris Burkert
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 5:53 AM
> To: Squeak
> Subject: Use of Underscores
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I use Bolot Kerimbaev's MySQL-Driver (Thanks very much). 
> Unfortunatly I have to use a Database with underscores in the 
> names of the rows. It ends in an Error because of the 
> assignment operator. Is there a way around ?
> 
> -- 
> Regards
>            Chris Burkert
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