I probably better go to bed now. In this case I am blind too. Eliot
already implemented this, we should just "enable the disabling of
underscore assignments" as fast as possible:
Preferences disable: #allowUnderscoreAssignment
Cheers,
Lukas
2009/11/4 Martin McClure <[email protected]>:
> Lukas Renggli wrote:
>
>> Supporting underscore identifiers and assignments at the same time
>> seems to be tricky, as there are all kinds of new ambiguities:
>> a_1negated could be an assignment of 1 negated to a, or an access of
>> the variable a_1negated :-/
>
> GemStone has supported both for the past couple of years. The rule we
> use is that _ must have whitespace on both sides to be considered
> assignment, otherwise it's part of a selector or variable name.
>
> This allowed us to continue using _ in selectors and variables, which
> we'd allowed from the very beginning, and made it easier to port Squeak
> code to GemStone.
>
> I'm not sure we've run across *any* code in actual use that uses
> underscore assignment without surrounding it with whitespace; certainly
> most code does put whitespace around assignments.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> -Martin
>
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