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- Subject: Re: ~= vs. !=
- From: "Thiago Bastos" <hellraider@...>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:51:20 -0200
>> (though my preference would be to see the existing forms deprecated).
>
>Python has exactly the same issue. While <> is obsoleted, it's still
>there for compatibility purposes.
I would also appreciate != instead of ~=. Not only because I'm more used to it, but also because everytime I want to type '~' I have to press the '~' key and then the spacebar (that is, two keypresses instead of one). That's the default Windows "USA International" keyboard layout, which I believe is widely used.
The "new" != operator could be introduced in Lua 5.x (5.1?), and later on (maybe in Lua 6.0) the ~= operator could be dropped.
-- Thiago Bastos
