Rant after trying Rust a bit

Idan Arye via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Aug 6 04:30:43 PDT 2015


On Thursday, 6 August 2015 at 11:26:10 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> 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.

I understand your attempt to auction your old APL keyboard didn't 
go well?


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