how to get an underscore character

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Fri Apr 28 09:47:49 UTC 2006


>> \
>>> Did the 3.9 team decide to adopt Berts underscore solution and,  
>>> if so, is there a plan to run his conversion for 3.9 which  
>>> converts the code from underscore assignment to :=?
>>
>> Yes but we have to pay attention since we are using MC and we do  
>> not know if we would not get loading order problems
>> if we would recompile everything (may be this is totally wrong  
>> what I'm saying since marcus already recompiled several times the  
>> image). So I have to check my fears :)
>
> Your fears may well be valid. What's really unpredictable when  
> loading multiple MC packages at once is the order of initialize calls.
>
> This is not really related to this package, but we might want to  
> add the disabling of underscore assignments preference from  
> Croquet, so you notice any missed ones when recompiling.

Yeap
do you have it somewhere?

>>>  If so, may we preserve the old timestamp information?  Since the  
>>> change is only cosmetic, I think the historical information is  
>>> more valuable than to know when/who ran global-search-and-replace  
>>> of the assignment operator.
>>>
>>>  I have posted an update to Berts FixUnderscores script on Mantis.
>>
>> (Your update is taking care of the old timestamp information?)
>> 	ifTrue: [stef saysGreat; askBertForIntegration; andWillUseThatIn39]
>
> Yes, it does take care of the timestamps. Not tested on old methods  
> without timestamps, though. And it depends on Monticello (uses one  
> method added by Monticello), but that shouldn't really be a problem.
>
> I uploaded it to the impara repository and released on Squeakmap.  
> (Should I add you as co-maintainer, Chris?)

Cool.
I'm just moving some stuff to france now. but over the week-end I  
will do another havresting pass.

Stef



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