Until now we have:

PRO
 - Torsten
 - Edgar
 - Bert
 - Alexander
 - Matthew
 - Keith
 - Igor

CONTRA
 - Ian Trudel
 - Sam

SCOPING
 - Andreas (but vote PRO depend on backwards compatibility aspect)
 - Stéphane (votes for scoping)

NOT CLEARLY STATED
 - Louis
 - Randal (vote seem to depend on Preference, which we now have)
 - Radoslav (but would rather ban underscore assignment, than 
             underscores in method names)
 - Ralph Boland
 - Nicolas 

>There's a lot of code that uses at least x_ foo (i.e., no space between >var name and underscore).

With the Preference disabled you have Squeak as it was before and
there should be no problem to load this code. At least if you dont
have packages with "_" selectors. And if thats not enough a simple 
lint rule can check that _ selectors are not used in a base/core image.

I dont know about the Etoys codebase that much but is it really relying 
on the missing space here?

If not the code can be automatically converted while loading as Matthew 
suggested in [1] today. An alternative would be to do the homework
(as with other stuff like #fixTemps and friends) and update the 
code when moving to newer Squeak?!

The Refactoring browser also has a nice function to convert _ to := assignments (in the lint tool).


>I'm wondering: I don't really know how the people who want underscores 
>plan to use this, but would it make sense to scope this differently, 
>i.e., either on a per-class or even a per-method basis?

Scoping? Why? A preference is
  a) simple 
  b) settable by the image owner who is able to decide if he
     wants to allow it or not (same as with underscores)

>Per class would be my favorite because in a system where you'd like to 
>use underscores globally you'd just have Object 
>class>>allowUnderscoreSelectors return true.

You mean this for real? I thought we would clean up the system 
instead of putting anything into (already bloated) base classes .... ;)

And is it a class who allows underscore selectors or is it the compiler? 

Bye
Torsten
  
[1] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-March/146419.html
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