Ah. Seems that just another misunderstanding slipped into the thread.  
Please correct me, such that at least this one is crystal clear:

My understanding of Edgar's question/suggestion was that, instead of ':=',  
the Squeak community (can) choose to use '<-'.

This (':=' versus: '<-') has nothing to do with ((underline versus:  
single_keystroke_left_arrow) versus: ':='), at least this is my position.

/Klaus

(0.5 * OT) I strongly believe that one or the other Squeaker will make a  
change set which allows her / him to change Squeak assignment  
character(s)+glyph(s) just the way they want. This is what Smalltalk is  
about: don't like it? change it!

On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:40:01 +0200, Duncan Mak <duncanmak at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/8/06, Ralph Johnson <johnson at cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On 6/8/06, Klaus D. Witzel <klaus.witzel at cobss.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:33:55 +0200, Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
>> > >
>> > > I wonder why not use <- , two characters as := , but closer to
>> original
>> > > idea.
>>
>> This is a bad idea, because you would be different from other
>> Smalltalks for no good reason.  The right solution is to make the
>> editor smarter.  That way you get compatibility AND a good user
>> interface.
>
>
> I agree 100%.
>
> I'm surprised that no one mentioned it, but for me, a big reason why I
> missed having the good ol' left arrow is because := just takes so many  
> keys
> to type.
>
> I've been working on a patch to add a new keyboard shortcut to
> ParagraphEditor to allow control-= to insert assignment. For now, I'll
> definitely make it insert ':=', because that's the way things are going.
>
> Duncan.