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

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2014-04-26 13:44 GMT+02:00 David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>:

> 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 :-).

Yes, ~= is confusing if your first language was C, but != is ugly.
I prefer ≠ which is pretty and not confusing.