Re: Scripting language takes a silicon turn

["Brian Weed" <bw@...>]

!= and // are the first mods I make to Lua.  It would be nice to see 
them officially supported.

Brian

Tom Reahard wrote:
> I also agree with != and //.  Very practical - I only get in the -- 
> habit when spending significant time in Lua.  Since I go back and 
> forth, it would be nice to have these two additions so I wouldn't get 
> confused.
>
> Tom
>
> mnewberry wrote:
> > I also would also love to see != and // supported in the standard Lua. It is 
> > also an ongoing com[plaint from a reasonable fraction of our users. They 
> > really like Lua overall but those syntactical differences with C really 
> > annoy them. As they say, "Lua is not C", but I would bet the majority of Lua 
> > users have C/C++ as their mother tongue.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:39:54 +0100, Alen Ladavac wrote
> >   
> > > From: "Keith Wiles" <kwiles@centurytel.net>
> > >     
> > > > Every time I compile a new Lua I add the support for '!=', my old 'C' 
> > > > fingers have a hard time to making the change :-( I would love to see '!
> > > >       
> > =' 
> >   
> > > > and '~=' get supported as a default feature of the language. Adding '!=' 
> > > > does not add very much code and it sure does make it easier :-)
> > > >       
> > > /me gets out of the shadow
> > >
> > > While at it... I didn't bother to check it out yet, but is there a 
> > > real syntactical reason why '//' could not be used instead of '--'? 
> > > (In a custom version like Keith said above?) Same for if-then-end vs 
> > > if-{-}, etc.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Alen
> > >     
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