On 16.10.2005, at 16:55, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote:


> stéphane ducasse wrote:
>
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I do not want to open another war but we would like to use
>>
>> http://source.impara.de/underscore/
>>
>> to fix the fonts and the packages of the image to use consistently :=
>> as offered by the package of Bert.
>>
>>
>>
> I'm all for it. Although I liked the left-arrow symbol when I was  
> first introduced to Smalltalk, it is a real anachronism by now.  
> Wherever we present source code textually, it should conform to  
> current standards. Graphical representations are a different  
> matter, of course.
>

Exactly. If we use ascii text, we should use ascii text. And if  
somebody wants a more graphical redering, then it should be done "for  
real": Abandon the use of text and
instead use a higher-level, object based representation for methods,  
then render that to whatever the user wants.


> I don't know how many existing MC packages still use _, these would  
> have to be fixed as well...
> Maybe if the fonts were changed, people would start using := more  
> (since _ assignment looks ugly) and _ assignment could be phased  
> out with Squeak 5.0...
>
>

Shout alerady replaces _ by :=, the result of that is that we see  
lots of changestes that should be one-line changes but are not,  
because of the _.

     Marcus