Re: display _ as left arrow (was Re: Help on sending a UDP Packet)

[Derek Zhou]

stes@PANDORA.BE writes:

> I'm using the underscore (_) as assignment operator;
>
> As far as I can see, both Squeak and GNU smalltalk accept and support "_" as 
> assignment;
>
Accept, but not encourage. None of the GNU smalltak and Squeak's official
example code use it. ":=" at least is a cognate from Pascal, what else is
using "_" ?

As a language GNU smalltalk has to be compatible; as a editor package
smalltalk-mode needs to promote best practices. The problem with
underscore is it is white space sensitive, and that can throw many
people off:

a_-1
a _-1

Both are valid smalltalk expressions.

Derek