FYI: Ceylon

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:49:03 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 01:31:02AM +0200, Paul D. Anderson wrote:
> > I took a quick look at the Ceylon language (http://ceylon-lang.org/)
> [...]
> > They also have couple of operators, '===' and '<=>' meaning
> > 'identical' and 'compare', respectively.
> 
> Yikes! As soon as I saw '===', I went "no way, no how". That's one of
> the most egregious flaws of languages like JavaScript. And they have
> 'is' on top of that?! Double yikes! What _must_ their type system look
> like?!
> 

Indeed. '===' operators are generally, if not always, indicative of a
thoroughly broken '=='.