On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:33 AM, K. K. Subramaniam <subbukk at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thursday 11 March 2010 10:49:30 pm Ralph Boland wrote:
> > I much prefer arrows to ':=' and will continue to use them
> > in my private code as long as I can.
> > However, I accept that Squeak is converting to the use of
> > ':='.  But this conversion only make sense if the intent
> > is to eventually disallow the use of  '_' (arrow) for
> > assignment so that it can be used in variable names
> > and method names.
> IMHO, both := and _ are wrong choices. To be consistent with selector
> conventions, it should have been =: ( for assign:). But I guess it is too
> late
> now.
>

Ha!  The sound of one hand clapping.  Excellent, Subbu!


>
> Subbu
>
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