Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work2) now available

[Coroutines <coroutines@...>]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Hao Wu <wuhao.wise@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@gmx.net> wrote:
>> Am 23.03.2014 21:39 schröbte Thijs Schreijer:
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>>>
>>> Thx. I understand the logic. But still would find '!' clearer for a unary
>>> not.
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>> C uses `!` for logical not. It might get confusing if Lua used it for
>> bitwise not ...
>
> there is no "!" in Lua, and ~= is "not equal" in Lua, I would rather
> find it would be confusing to use "!" for not
>
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>>> Thijs
>>>
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>> Philipp
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> Hao
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I believe they're saying that it would be confusing in 5.3 to have ~=
for binary, logical-not and ~ for unary, bitwise-not.

Lua doesn't have compound-assignment operators, so it'll be confusing
to see both ~item and item ~= whatever