not operator operator..

[Regan Heath]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 06:03:39 -0700, S. Chancellor  
<dnewsgr at mephit.kicks-ass.org> wrote:
> On 2006-04-03 22:24:39 -0700, "Regan Heath" <regan at netwin.co.nz> said:
>
>> On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 20:34:24 -0700, S. Chancellor   
>> <dnewsgr at mephit.kicks-ass.org> wrote:
>>> I really really hate the !in, !is syntax.   I think a lot of other   
>>> people do too.
>>  I like !in and !is.
>>
>>> I propose that the word not, become an operator on operators.
>>  I don't like it.
>>  - It's more typing.
>> - "!" already means "not" to me (in this context).
>> - I read "!is" as "not is" and can't see an advantage to having "is  
>> not"  instead. (I don't see why it has to be correct english)
>>  Regan
>
> !is is ugly and hard to read

I disagree on both points.

> code is supposed to be beautiful.

code is not supposed to be english, it's supposed to be code.
code _is_ beautiful, english is not.

Regan