> Am 26.06.2014 um 12:46 schrieb Nicolas Cellier > <[email protected]>: > > $! 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 !=
+1 ... hmmm err... I mean -1...hmmm ok +1 for the -1. Ok, I guess I suck at math. Norbert > > 2014-06-26 10:47 GMT+02:00 Max Leske <[email protected]>: >> >> On 26.06.2014, at 10:15, Christophe Demarey <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > 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 >
