Re: Alternative to ~= for inequality?

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:52:53PM +0800, Michael Richter wrote:
> On 8 February 2013 21:58, sergei karhof <karhof21@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Rather than Perl-izing it, I would say: bringing it in line with most
> > of modern languages.
> > FWIW, Lua's solitary choice of ~= is a weird quirk.
> >
> 
> Personally I'd prefer ¬= myself.  Because ! to me means "send message" in a
> language I use that's far more modern than C or C++ or any of the other
> curly brace blight languages.

! to me means "pointer dereference" :)  When I first started using Lua,
many many years ago, ~= confused me because it struck me that it should
be "approximately equal".  I managed to get over this within 5 minutes
of using the language, and it confuses me why it might take anybody else
longer.

> I cannot believe that people are calling syntax from a language created in
> the '60s (be *very* careful before trying to challenge me on this date!)
> "modern".

Well, both B and BCPL are from the '60s.  I don't recall if BCPL used !=
but B certainly did.

B.