[Cuis-dev] Removed 4 sequences from NamedCharacters / LatEx character input

Luciano Notarfrancesco luchiano at gmail.com
Fri Oct 4 10:45:44 PDT 2024


Hi Juan,
The example sequences you mentioned are not important for me, removing
those would be enough? Or restricting to alphanumeric names like \times and
\alpha, plus \^ for superscript and \_ for subscript?

On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 22:31 Juan Vuletich <juan at cuis.st> wrote:

> Hi Folks, especially Luciano.
>
> Today I learned that the \ + name + space sequence for entering selected
> Unicode characters meant that some valid Smalltalk could not be entered.
> For instance:
> 'C:\' [space] (i.e. some reasonable Windows file path in a String
> literal, followed by a space character)
> "C:\" [space] (i.e. some reasonable Windows file path in a comment,
> followed by a space character)
> a \~ b (i.e. some weird but possible binary selector)
> `a copyWith: $\` (i.e. some backtick compile time constant ending with a
> backslash)
>
> If Luciano or anyone thinks they really need this, we can add a preference.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Thanks!
>
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