New syntax for blocks
greg
greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Nov 18 00:28:11 EST 2009
r wrote:
> I think the syntax was chosen because the
> alternatives are even worse AND since assignment is SO common in
> programming, would you *really* rather type two chars instead of one?
Smalltalk solved the problem by using a left-arrow character
for assignment. But they had an unfair advantage in being
able to use a non-standard character set on their custom-built
machines.
We should be able to do a lot better now using Unicode.
We could even heal the <> vs != rift by using a real
not-equal symbol!
--
Greg
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