[ENH] Display := when pretty printing ( [sm][et][er][cd] [approved] )

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa ragnar at linalco.com
Sat Oct 11 12:35:26 UTC 2003


On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:48:00PM +0100, goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
> ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> > > Just as long as I can use the arrow when I program I am happy. :-)
> > 
> > The arrow glyph is not on the keyboard. When I edit a piece of text 
> > with my email editor there is no
> > arrow just underscore. Then even in Squeak when I have a code and I 
> > change the font or the size I get a _

There is, generappt, no slashed-o on keyboards either, so I can't
write my last name correctly.

> I assume you are being sarcastic here. First of all, I can not see what
> is so childish about an arrow instead of ":=". Are keyword messages
> "childish" too? I mean, it is obviously "foreign" to the curly brace
> crowd...

I like the arrow.  I actually see the := construct as a workaround,
and a rather aestherically ugly one.  FWIW.

> And even if it was childish (personally I think the default window
> colors induce more feelings of "childishness" than the arrow) I am not

I'd like to speak in favor of colors too.  I wasn't really into them
until one day I had all squeak cluttered with windows and realized
that, oh surprise, I could figure out what kind of window a frame
belonged to by looking at its colors.

Squeak + Vera sans (14 i think?) + diegos ui stuff + kraftwurm.jpg as
background (light colors) just looks great and not at all childish.
Syntax highlighting for source code without pretty pring (so it doesnt
mess up with my spacing) would be delicious.


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