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Smalltalk's left arrow is actually _. Before ASCII was fully standardized to what we know today, ^ was ↑ and _ was ←. This is visible in some later character se
by bitwize 1y ago
Smalltalk's left arrow is actually _. Before ASCII was fully standardized to what we know today, ^ was ↑ and _ was ←. This is visible in some later character sets, like PETSCII and the fonts used for Smalltalk. In Smalltalk, you can still type 'a _ foo' and it will assign foo to a.
- igouy 1y agoIn Cuis Smalltalk, you can still type b _ 5 and see b ← 5 and copy / paste here and see b := 5 https://cuis.st/ https://cuis.st/