> It would be a good idea to have the modification below in the gnu smalltalk > git repository; > it's coherent with the comments on _ and := in the GNU smalltalk manual, > that those are both accepted by gnu smalltalk as assignment.
I don't have access to the Smalltalk Git, but if there's a consensus that displaying `_` as a left arrow just like `:=` is a better choice, I'll be happy to change it in the GNU ELPA package (http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/smalltalk-mode.html) > By the way, comments are enclosed in double quotes "" but what I observe > with the Alto Smalltalk-72 font, > is that those are printed as 'fingers' symbols, but I doubt that is current > practice. Also I'm not sure it'd be helpful: the purpose of displaying `_` and `:=` as an arrow is that it's meant to express the semantics in a more intuitive way, whereas I don't know that "fingers" would express the notion of comment more intuitively (also I'm not sure which Unicode char would be used for that, but a quick look here with `C-x 8 RET` didn't turn up anything covered by my currently installed fonts). Nowadays coloring is more traditionally used to indicate that something is a comment. > Also the ! character is printed as a doubled up-arrow. Similarly here, I don't see why a doubled up-arrow (I guess `⇑` ?) would convey the semantics in a more intuitive manner than a `!`. So I'm not sure it'd be worth the trouble. Stefan
