Re: Proposal: allow @, $, !, and ? in Lua identifiers

[David Demelier <demelier.david@...>]

2014-04-25 14:57 GMT+02:00 steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Coroutines <coroutines@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How is <> used in Pascal?
>
> It is "not equal".
>
>> Also, I would like to see ~= changed to !=.
>
> Apparently ~ is a bitch to type on some keyboards, so allowing it as
> an alternative might be an idea (Moonscript does this [1])
>

I also would like to have != instead of ~=. For many reasons, first
because ~= usually mean "approximatively" and because almost all
popular languages use !=. A beginner programmer will confuse when he
will first see ~=. I don't think there are real reasons to keep this
operator :-).

>> I'd be in favor of not allowing it at the beginning of an identifier, yes :>
>
> Ah, but that's exactly where people will want to use it - so they can
> do JQuery in Lua ;)
>
> [1] leaf has collected just about every rejected feature from lua-l
> and rolled them into his own language.  It actually works pretty well,
> although I still dislike \ for method calls.
>



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Demelier David