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

[Paul Merrell <marbux@...>]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 4:44 AM, David Demelier
<demelier.david@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 :-).

Isn't not breaking tons of existing scripts a "real" reason?

Best regards,

Paul


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