FYI: Ceylon

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 01:00:18AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> 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 '=='.

What boggles my mind is the fact that they have '===' *and* 'is'. I
don't think I want to know what's the difference between them.

One of these days, I should invent a language that sports the ====
operator. Along with the associated <====> operator and the ^_^
operator.


T

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