On 05/02/2008, Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 5, 2008 1:54 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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> > On 4-Feb-08, at 4:40 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
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> > > 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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> > 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?
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> > 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?
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> 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.
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Let's do it! Of course, if this is the only little obstacle on the way
of putting World on it's knees to bow Smalltalk :)

> Gulik.
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Igor Stasenko AKA sig.