I think that while working with float arithmetic it will be nice to provide something like #~= instead of #closeTo:, and also add #~<, #~<= and so on. But maybe I’m wrong :)
Uko On 26 Jun 2014, at 13:07, Christophe Demarey <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
