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FWIW, the left arrow is also what smalltalk used for assignment, from wikipedia[0] In the original Parc Place image, the glyph of the underscore character
by riffraff 10y ago
FWIW, the left arrow is also what smalltalk used for assignment, from wikipedia[0]
In the original Parc Place image, the glyph of the underscore character (_)
appeared as a left-facing arrow (like in the 1963 version of the ASCII code).
Smalltalk originally accepted this left-arrow as the only assignment operator.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk#Assignment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk#Assignment