Re: Alternative to ~= for inequality?

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On 2013-02-12 10:37 AM, "Michael Richter" <ttmrichter@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 12 February 2013 00:57, William Sumner <prestonsumner@me.com> wrote:
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>> I think it's a little inaccurate to portray it as a "bikeshedding" debate, as if syntax is a solved problem and any discussion of it is off-limits.
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> I don't think it's very much, if any at all, beyond a bike shed debate.  Syntax is, for all practical purposes a solved problem.  Syntax is largely, past a certain point of expressiveness, utterly unimportant.  Semantics rules the day.
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> People saying it's too hard to remember ~= over != are arguing the colour of the bike shed and nothing beyond that, IMO.

Well, the original complaint wasn't "~= is hard to remember, != isn't" but "my keyboard doesn't have ~, it'd be nice to support the also-common != syntax as an alternative". It's an accessibility issue, so that seems a little more important than bike shedding.