Am 16.10.2005 um 21:55 schrieb Hans-Martin Mosner:

> 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.
> 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...

That's what the package does - patching the fonts, and providing  
methods for rewriting source code.

- Bert -