On Feb 5, 2008 1:54 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

>
> On 4-Feb-08, at 4:40 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Exactly. And it's about time we used unicode properly and had the
> appropriate char for our assignment. This ':=" crap is just vile. What
> is this, Pascal?
>
> I quite like the leftwards sqiggle arrow"⇜" Unicode 21DC and RTF8 E2
> 87 9C but even plain boring  ← Leftwards Arrow unicode 2190 would be
> ok. And how about ⤴ arrow pointing rightwards then curving upwards
> unicode 2934 for return?
>


Sure. What button on the keyboard would it be? We could map the backspace
key because that's already got an arrow on it, but then we won't be allowed
to make any more speling mistakes.

Gulik.



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