[squeak-dev] Can i has underscores? :)

Derek O'Connell doconnel at gmail.com
Wed Apr 14 09:48:11 UTC 2010


On 14/04/10 10:39, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> I checked, that in Pharo image i could simply use:
>
> foo_bar
>
> 	a_b := 5.
> 	FOO_BAR := 10.
> 	
> 	^ FOO_BAR
>
> and it works!
>
> It would be cool to have similar in squeak, even if it may require to
> define something like:
>
> MyClass class>>canIHasUnderscores
>    ^ true
>
> It would be really nice to have, especially for things like OpenGL
> API, which using underscores in constant names.
> Exterminating underscores in those identifiers makes them really hard
> to read , and awkward to use, because
> every time you going to code something, first you usually refer to
> docs, where you see these names with underscores,
> but then once you going to type this name it costs you an additional
> mental effort - don't forget to skip underscores.
>

+1



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