Rant after trying Rust a bit

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On Thursday, 6 August 2015 at 06:50:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/2/2015 8:17 PM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= 
> <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It's a weird thing to do for a C-decendant as I would expect
> "~=" to do binary
> > negation.
>
> If you really felt this way, you'd expect the C != operator
>
>   a != b
>
> to be the same as:
>
>   a = !b

I don't because "!=" is frequently used and usually in a context 
where expectations points towards comparison and not assignment.

But I would prefer "=", "≠","<" and "≤" for comparison and 
constants... then have something else for variable assignment.