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

Luciano Notarfrancesco luchiano at gmail.com
Fri Oct 4 10:47:27 PDT 2024


Ah, you mean only these 4? They are not important for me at all, and it
makes absolute sense to remove them to me. Sorry for the confusion.

On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 00:45 Luciano Notarfrancesco <luchiano at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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!
>>
>> --
>> Juan Vuletich
>> cuis.st
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>> linkedin.com/in/juan-vuletich-75611b3
>> twitter.com/JuanVuletich
>>
>>
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