Morph>>Delete
Avi Bryant
avi at beta4.com
Fri Dec 5 00:57:04 UTC 2003
On Dec 4, 2003, at 4:52 PM, Alan Kay wrote:
> Lots of appearance things were nicer before the Smalltalk-80 release
> efforts. I wasn't there at the time, but I think they decided
> (probably rightly) to use the existing character set in the outside
> world. And, today, it would be nice to do something like your
> suggestion (maybe a different one) and many other cosmetic
> possibilities, but several folks have pointed out that even a slight
> deviation from unadorned text is not supported by all email clients
> (sigh).
We could still use styled text within Squeak, and have conventions for
writing code in plain text when necessary. For example, I always write
:= instead of _ when sending email, even though I much prefer the left
arrow where it's supported.
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