[squeak-dev] Re: keeping arrow for assignment operator

[squeak-dev] Re: keeping arrow for assignment operator


Hi Ralph Boland,

Hanging on to underscores as assignments is not the way forward.
However if you want a strike font to show underscores as back arrows look at:

http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=1619
0001619: [ENH] MakeArrows-sps (resent as change set)

For everyone else ('cepting Juan):
 One of the problems in eradicating underscores from source
has been the shout and IIRC OBpreferences that allow you to show in your code. Then when you edit the code
and accept the edits.... pop go the underscores and we go forward into the past once again.


This is really sad.  

The compiler allows foo_bar := 5 . But it takes that to mean:
foo := bar := 5 .
Imagine porting code from other places. It compiles but with gotchas.


Yours in service and curiosity, --Jerome Peace