Use of Underscores
John Dougan
jdougan at acm.org
Sat Aug 24 06:28:35 UTC 2002
What I'd love to have is Unicode support so I could use it's math and
greek characters in my code. For the old pre Smalltalk-80 characters we
could apply for a Unicode block, or just use the private space.
Interestingly, looking in VW 5i.4 I've found that there is some support
for the Unicode up arrow (ctrl-q ^ |) and left arrow (ctrl-q < -)
characters in the parser and compiler that can be made to work with a
little effort, unfortunately they currently display as a black block.
--john
Stephen Pair wrote:
>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
>
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