I like it too. Well, to be precise: I like the left arrow.

What I emphatically do NOT like, is the (ab)use of the ASCII
underscore character for that purpose :).

So my opinion is to get rid of it, and if people really want to have a
left arrow assignment operator, make something that uses Unicode char
U2190...

On 10/17/05, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar.hojland at linalco.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 09:55:46PM +0200, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote:
> > st?phane 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.
> > 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...
>
> Well, I'll be the first (and only one?:) to say that I like _ as an
> assignment operator, at least that way it is useful for something.
> := is ugly (and wasteful;)
>
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