@johnmyleswhite @geoffjentry @harlanh @treycausey I have actually typed x[a<-b] before and been very sad.
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@fdaapproved@geoffjentry@harlanh @treycausey That makes me sad too.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@johnmyleswhite@geoffjentry@harlanh @treycausey not as sad a C programmers back when _ was an assignment operator.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@johnmyleswhite@geoffjentry@harlanh @treycausey I think that's what the left arrow symbol from the 3270 mapped to on PC keyboards.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@fdaapproved@geoffjentry@harlanh @treycausey Yeah, that's the history. Doug Bates told me about it the other day.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@johnmyleswhite@geoffjentry@harlanh @treycausey Smalltalk did the same thing, but eventually switched to := like Pascal IIRC.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@fdaapproved@geoffjentry@harlanh @treycausey Got a reference for that? Would love to see the history.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@johnmyleswhite@geoffjentry@harlanh @treycausey maybe@avibryant knows more?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@fdaapproved@johnmyleswhite@geoffjentry@HarlanH @treycausey Squeak Smalltalk will still accept either (and displays _ as left arrow).2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@avibryant@fdaapproved@geoffjentry@harlanh @treycausey Does Smalltalk have a history of lots of whitespace?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@johnmyleswhite @fdaapproved @geoffjentry @HarlanH @treycausey whitespace barely matters in its grammar. People use it pretty freely though.
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