Bill Schwab wrote:
Stef,
FWIW, my biggest priority is to be able to use underscores in class and method names (very useful when talking to the outside world - I don't care if it's ugly, it works<g>). Pharo will help me reduce Microsoft's influence over my future, but while one source of underscores goes away, things like GSL and other libraries becoming increasingly important to me are littered with them.
Many "details" along the way would apparently go away if the compiler and image stopped abusing $_. To those who insist that it saves them time, I have long asserted, and continue to do so, that the editor can map _ to := for them, as well as take out a preceding colon when deleting $=. Done. The compiler gets its sanity back, and they type one character for assignment.
Does that help at all??
Bill
But lets solve this for squeak and pharo, otherwise we will have to do it twice Keith