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

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Wed Aug 10 00:48:47 UTC 2016


On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 10:07:39PM +0200, Tobias Pape wrote:
> 
> 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.
>

Take a look at how Juan has handled the assignment arrow issue in Cuis.
If you have not done so before, please take a few minutes to download a
Cuis image and check it out.

  https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev

Dave
 


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