Complexity and starting over on the JVM
Sean Heber
sean at fifthace.com
Tue Feb 5 00:52:45 UTC 2008
> 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.
If it wasn't for kids, nothing would change. :-P
l8r
Sean
More information about the Squeak-dev
mailing list
|