Tim Rowledge wrote:

>Nevin Pratt <nevin at smalltalkpro.com> is claimed by the authorities to have written:
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>>I was wondering if anybody knew what the rationale for disallowing 
>>underscores in method names for Squeak was.  For other dialects, this is 
>>allowed.
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>Because the underscore is mapped to the assign arrow. Just like in
>the old days when programmers were real programmers, and computers were
>kept in cooled rooms.
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>tim
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I haven't looked at the Squeak code that does this, but off hand, I 
don't particularly see why this should disallow it's use in the method 
name itself.

So in my mind, I still have the same question.

Nevin