Le 26 juin 2014 à 12:46, Nicolas Cellier a écrit : > $! 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?
Of course not. It is just because it is something widely used but other names
could do the stuff like <> or /=
> 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.
Indeed it is a deep change but maybe at least we could have an alias and use it
for all new code. At a time, it will be less painful to do this change.
As expressed in another thread, Smalltalk code convention for method naming
strategy is intention revealing.
That said, I think ~= is not intention revealing and it will be good to fix or
propose a good alternative.
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