>>>>> "Paul" == Paul D Fernhout <pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> writes:

Paul> Squeak also deviates from other Smalltalks sometimes for no good
Paul> reason. A dozen years later you still can't use underscore as easily as
Paul> in most other Smalltalks because underscore is still overloaded as the
Paul> assignment symbol. [...]  What does this weird use of underscore really
Paul> get anyone?

Ahh, you kids, forgetting your roots.  We greybeards understand that "_" is
actually the left arrow in the original fonts for the Xerox Parc Smalltalk80
Release 2 image, from which Squeak is derived (via Apple and Disney and a cast
of thousands).  That it now looks like "_" is merely an artifact of applying a
modern meaning for slot 95 in the ASCII table.

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