$! is not classified as a binary character right now, is it?
Of course it's possible but I'd just say why this particular symbol?
It does not look mathematical either. Or do you love C/C++ so much?
Note that ~= has same meaning in Matlab.
There are other possibilities like /= or <> (Fortran 95, ADA), even the
long form =/=.
But frankly, I don't buy this kind of change, for the sake of looking like
some {} language, making such a deep change is overkill.
In any case, a big -1 for !=
2014-06-26 10:47 GMT+02:00 Max Leske <[email protected]>:
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> On 26.06.2014, at 10:15, Christophe Demarey <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to make a suggestion that may lead to a long debate but
> let's go: What do you think about deprecating ~= and replace it with != for
> example?
> > Why? In mathematics the symbol ~ is used for equivalence. To me (and I
> think any newcomer to Smalltalk) the first guess of the meaning of ~= is
> equivalent to => missed. The meaning is totally different: "Answer whether
> the receiver and the argument do not represent the same object.”
>
> +1
> But then I also want to suggest #!== for negating identity.
>
> >
> > I never used this method because it is too confusing for me. I prefer to
> use (a = b) not or (a = b) ifFalse:.
> > So, the discussion is open ...
> >
> > Christophe
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