[squeak-dev] Re: Renaming "Squeak"

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Wed Mar 5 03:23:54 UTC 2008


On 4-Mar-08, at 7:19 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> tim Rowledge wrote:
>> On 4-Mar-08, at 5:10 PM, Sean Heber wrote:
>>> How about an assignment arrow, but rotated at some odd angle?  :-)
>> You mean like
>>>> Unicode 'LEFTWARDS ARROW WITH LOOP'?
>
> No, no, no. Josh and I just decided that it has already been taken  
> as the "eventual assign operator" in Croquet. It means that the  
> variable may or may not be assigned to and you're not supposed to  
> care about whether it was assigned or not. Best used with  
> combination with unused temporary variables! ;-)
Ah, you mean results of those CrossedFingerPromises?


tim
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