[squeak-dev] Re: The Inbox: ReleaseBuilder-cmm.143.mcz

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Tue Aug 9 20:07:39 UTC 2016


On 09.08.2016, at 22:00, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

>> On 09-08-2016, at 12:35 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If people are actively still  preferring the use of underscore
>> assignment in new code today, then I can understand turning it on..
> 
> 
> I still very much prefer the proper arrow assign but not enough to inflict a misleading underscore char on my saved code. Given our ability to handle unicode I’d love to see proper up-arrow and left-arrow being used - even if they were translated back to ^ & := on fileout (and converse on filein of course). Unicode U+2190/1 anyone?
> That’s ← & ↑
\
I wanted to do that for years, actually. But then I saw the limitation of todays typewri^H^H^H^H^H^H^H keyboards and the only a tad desolate state of keyboard shortcuts in Squeak at that time and put my effort on the “dreams” shelf.

Best regards
	-Tobias




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