Re: Alternative to ~= for inequality?

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

You should try APL; I think you'd find it right up your alley! :)

/s/ Adam

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Michael Richter <ttmrichter@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd prefer to see ¬= myself.  Makes more sense to me than ~= and != both.
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> On 7 March 2013 22:32, Gavin Kistner <phrogz@me.com> wrote:
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>> On Mar 6, 2013, at 10:01 PM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
>> > Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@GMX.net> writes:
>> >> Funnily, I rarely see complains about using -- as in-line comment
>> >> symbol, or .. as string concatenation symbol.
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>> > I find I use comments and string-concatenation so often they quickly
>> > became second-nature (Lua's comment syntax is also rather pretty,
>> > which is a nice plus).  For whatever reason, that doesn't seem to be
>> > true of inequality, at least for me.
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>> This is also true for me, and I think it may have to do with the mismatch
>> between unary negation and not equals.
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>> In C/JavaScript/Java/Ruby/Io you use != for "not equals".
>> In C/JavaScript/Java/Ruby you use !a for "not a".
>> There is a nice mental symmetry here. The English word "not" and the
>> programming "!" operators are equivalent.
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>> Ruby and Lua and Io use "not" for logical negation. (Ruby allows both
>> "not" and "!" with different precedence.)
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>> But Lua is the only language I personally know that uses "~=" for not
>> equals. It especially conflicts mentally for me with the Ruby "=~" operator
>> which is used generally for pattern matching.
>>
>> Python's "<>" for inequality is also strange to me, but not as strange as
>> "~=".
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