[squeak-dev] Selectors with underscores

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Thu Mar 11 18:48:32 UTC 2010


On 11 March 2010 16:47, Ian Trudel <ian.trudel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/3/11 Torsten Bergmann <astares at gmx.de>:
>> Pharo allows you to use underscores in method selectors.
>> This is currently in Pharo 1.1 and not 1.0.
>>
>> Does that makes sense to have in Squeak trunk/Cuis too?
>
> No, this is *not* something I'd like to have in Squeak. It's a
> potential disaster in the long run where either we will be forced to
> standardize code in some way or live with a basic image/trunk/etc and
> very weird variable names mixing camel_CameANd_whAtnot beyond the
> usage of Glorp.
>

I don't see any disaster with it. Take another languages, does a
presence of underscore in names makes them
more beatiful/horrible above anything else? I don't think so.

> o_O
> (how appropriate!)
>
> Ian.
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>
>



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