FYI: Ceylon

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 14.07.2012 07:13, schrieb 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.

Easily doable in any language where operators are plain function names,
like ML-family, Lisp, Smalltalk, ...