[squeak-dev] Fixing support for selectors with underscores

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Tue May 3 01:51:57 UTC 2011


> You can't be serious about the text editor and find & replace.
> FixUnderscores was a crap that did exactly this. No wonder why noone liked
> it. We (or at least I) have a proper tool for changing underscore
> assignments to ansi ones which is based on Scanner. It's a lot easier to do
> the change in in the image IMHO: change the preference, load the code,
> replace the assignments, restore the preference.

Pretty strong opinion; I have one too.. :)  FixUnderscores was just
TSTTCPW, nothing more.  It got the job done while properly respecting
the accounting information of the changed methods; as it very well
should for this cosmetic, superficial, whimsical, political change.



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