Re: Alternative to ~= for inequality?

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 08/02/2013 14:25, sergei karhof wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Robert Virding
>
> > So to get a ~ you need to press ~ then SPACE. It takes a bit of getting used to.
>
> Not just that. The problem is that some keyboards do not have the ~ key at all.
>
> It would be helpful if Lua users were allowed to use at least != as an
> alternative. Remapping the keyboard is always possible, but it's an
> unwanted complication, which may turn out to be problematic with other
> programs on your system. Likewise, modifying the Lua source files and
> recompiling the lot is a cumbersome solution, which may also lead to
> other problems.
>
> I wonder how many of us would prefer to have != instead of ~=. Probably many.
>
> Appeal to Lua developers: is there any chance of at least adding != as
> an alternative in the next release?

Let's Lua support trigraphs like in C!
So, if you cannot type ~=, just type ??-=

Alternatively, let it support literal Unicode characters in the source, like Java.
So ~= can be typed \u007E=
(it can bring some issues of its own...)

These forms are ugly enough to discourage any further requests...

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