Have a look there is a preference.
Now for harvesting purpose this is highly important that we get the  
same convention in the source code.

Stef

On 4 juin 06, at 02:05, Duncan Mak wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> What is the concensus to the assignment character issue in 3.9?
>
> I understand the desire to let the underscore be underscore, and  
> not hijack it to be <-, I agree with that 100%.
>
> However, I believe that quite a few of us still prefer to see the  
> <- displayed instead of the newer :=. At least, I'd prefer a 2  
> keypresses than 3 keypresses (shift, semicolon, equal) for entering  
> the assignment operator.
>
> I propose the following:
>
> 1) Outside of the code display within Squeak, always use := because  
> the <- is not available anywhere else.
>
> 2) Inside Squeak, let it be a preference to allow the user to  
> choose between := and <- for the glyph used to display the  
> assignment operator.
>
> 3) Add Ctrl-= as an additional keybinding for entering the  
> assignment operator. This way, there's a 2-keypress way for  
> entering assignment again.
>
> Would it be a big performance hit if the source code is always  
> stored using :=, and add a method to StringHolderView or  
> PluggableTextView to convert from := to -> when displaying code?
>
> Duncan.
>