Re: Alternative to ~= for inequality?

[David Olofson <david@...>]

There are plenty of interesting Unicode symbols, if we're going beyond
ASCII anyway. ;-)

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 Ź= myself.  Makes more sense to me than ~= and != both.
>>
>>
>> On 7 March 2013 22:32, Gavin Kistner <phrogz@me.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>> >
>>> > 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.
>>>
>>> This is also true for me, and I think it may have to do with the mismatch
>>> between unary negation and not equals.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Ruby and Lua and Io use "not" for logical negation. (Ruby allows both
>>> "not" and "!" with different precedence.)
>>>
>>> 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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>
>



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