Re: Scripting language takes a silicon turn

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

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.

Yes, and support
#
;
/* */
(* *)
'
REM
comments as well! If we must add flexibility, let's do it in a large 
scale and please most of the people coming from other languages...

Also replace .. with + and/or &, allow to use <> in place of ~=, etc.

Seriously, changing syntax to avoid changing habits seems... well, I 
won't make any judgement, but I would prefer support for some new 
features like a += b or s ..= "foo" or some support for binary operations...

Note: there are already a slew of C-like scripting languages, I wonder 
why some people want yet another one...

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