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

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

2014-04-26 14:28 GMT+02:00 Paul Merrell <marbux@gmail.com>:
> 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?
>

Each Lua release already break thousands of scripts. So why not?

Regards,

-- 
Demelier David