On 9-Apr-07, at 2:51 AM, J J wrote:
From: Lex Spoon lex@lexspoon.org Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list<squeak- dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org> To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: Re: Squeak-dev/Squeak-web image v95-2 Date: 07 Apr 2007 16:13:43 -0400
I get the argument for going to Unicode, though that is not without its problems. What bugs me is redefining _ and ^ in non-standard ways. It's awkward and obscure.
Who wants to do that? I think _ should mean _. If we want an arrow for assignment and there is one in Unicode then we should provide a way to input it and use that. And we could provide a preference to use only ASCII for people who want to, but the _ assignments should go away imho.
Exactly; I certainly didn't intend to suggest "redefining _ and ^ in non-standard ways" and I don't think I saw anyone else do so. We have the option of using proper characters that are outside the narrow scope of mere ASCII to improve our system. I posit the we should so do.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Useful random insult:- Ought to have a warning label on his forehead.