3.9a-7006: ":=" replaced by "_"

Bert Freudenberg bert at impara.de
Fri Mar 10 22:47:05 UTC 2006


Am 09.03.2006 um 18:49 schrieb Chris Muller:

> I thought there was a fix to make underscore "_" and
> left-arrow assignment distinct.

It is, and the left-arrow glyph is still in the fonts. It's just not  
used anymore.

> Will replacing all left-arrow assignment with := cause
> hundreds of methods to lose their original
> timestamp/author information?  If so, is that worth
> this cosmetic change?

It would be pretty trivial to preserve the timestamps when patching  
the methods. But my FixUnderscores package currently does not.

> Thanks,
>   Chris
>
>> Message: 12
>> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 09:25:12 +0100
>> From: Marcus Denker <denker at iam.unibe.ch>
>> Subject: Re: 3.9a-7006: ":=" replaced by "_"
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>> On 08.03.2006, at 09:10, Nicolas Melin wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> in the latest alpha, ":=" are automatically
>> replaced by "_" when
>>> saving code in a System Browser.
>>> Is that the new default behaviour ?
>>
>> Not in my image. Do you have pretty printing turned
>> on? Ar you using
>> Shout?
>>
>> Pretty printing for now does _ , it should be :=,
>> though (will fix
>> that), as that's the new
>> standard.
>>
>> Before 3.9 goes beta, we will have relaced all the _
>> by :=, and
>> everything will be fine.
>>
>>        Marcus
>





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