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

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Sunday, April 27, 2014, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

No joke: Panorama Sheets (a way better approach to FileMaker than FileMaker) had in their user manual to type the ≠ for inequality, as of about 18 months ago. 

It turned out to be for an older Mac OS 7 version, but I think its funny in any decade.