Re: Why I leave Lua (Was: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work3) now available)

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

On Jul 9, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Enrico Colombini <erix@erix.it> wrote:

> On 09/07/2014 16.37, Michel Martens wrote:
>> As I read the message, all the points stated as downsides are aspects
>> that I really like about Lua. In the end I think it's correct to sum
>> it up as a matter of taste ("...probably not for me").
> 
> My thoughts exactly :-)
> About ~= I am totally neutral: I do not even remember how the first 'not equal' operator I used looked like (and I have no difficult reading '~' as 'not').
> 
> -- 
>  Enrico
> 

Over the years I’ve used .NE. (FORTRAN, yes with the dots), <> with BASIC and dialects, != with C and dialects etc etc. I have no real trouble switching, though I make the odd typo. I’m a little sympathetic to those who point out that tilde is used for “approximate” in many math environments, so it reads a little oddly if you are aware of that. But I don’t think it’s a big deal.

Anyway, in Lua you can always write “not x == y” :)

—Tim