> On 17 Mar 2016, at 10:43 AM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net> wrote:
> 
> On 03/16/2016 07:18 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>> If we were to look for not-equal-to operators that affect large numbers
>> of people, it might be worth considering supporting "!=", since a
>> majority of other languages support so for today's audience (and more
>> importantly tomorrow's) that habit impacts orders of magnitude more
>> developers than an old HyperCard-specific token.
> 
> Done.
> <https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/3754>

Cool, will be interesting to see how this goes. I know jumping between 
languages I’ve had to correct myself on that one. The other one is break which 
of course compiles fine but only works in case control structures when I was 
trying to use it in repeat one time instead of exit repeat. I wonder why break 
wasn’t exit switch? I guess if we allowed break as a synonym for exit repeat 
then we might want to allow continue as a synonym for next repeat… In the end 
we will start arguments about whether there aught to be just one syntax to do 
things rather than lots of synonyms and let the script editor translate the 
synonyms and abbreviations on the fly (I’m pretty sure that was what we ended 
up with last time we discussed it).

Cheers

Monte
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