Re: Alternative to ~= for inequality?

[Newton Kim <babynewton73@...>]

I agree with Daniel.
It is evident that != is widely used, but I don't think it means that Lua should follow.
I'm happy with ~=.

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@digital-scurf.org> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 12:53:04PM -0300, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > I'd prefer to see ¬= myself.  Makes more sense to me than ~= and != both.
>
> Since ¬ is not ASCII, we opted for ~ . In logic, both ¬ and ~ are used
> for "not": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negation#Notation

Haskell uses /= in an attempt to make it look a little more like a ≠.  A
language I used a bit on a uni course used == for equality and =/= for
inequality.

I *like* Lua's ~= and hardly think it's a problem for people much.

D.

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