Re: display _ as left arrow (was Re: Help on sending a UDP Packet)

Derek Zhou via Users mailing list for the GNU Smalltalk environment <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.gnu.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] writes:
>
> In any case the smalltalk-mode could be enhanced:
>
>> (defvar smalltalk-prettify-symbols-alist
>>  '(("^" . ?↑)
>>    (":=" . ?←)))
>
> this could be extended to include a line
>
>>    ("_" . ?←)))
>
> so that the underscore is also pretty-printed as the back arrow.

Right now the underscore is not even highlighted as an operator. Treating it
as one could really screw up the parser. Do people still actively use
the underscore as the assignment operator? I thought that is a relic from
long long time ago.

Derek
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