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

Juan Vuletich juan at cuis.st
Fri Oct 4 11:59:08 PDT 2024


Yes, just those four.

Great. Thank you!

Cheers,

On 10/4/2024 1:47 PM, Luciano Notarfrancesco via Cuis-dev wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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