<> vs != was Re: A Suggestion for Python Colon Syntax

[Thomas Wouters]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 12:15:25AM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:

> Best guess is that "<>" will go away in P3K.  I jokingly told Guido it was
> clearly wrong for an inequality operator to look so symmetric, and he forgot
> to laugh <wink>.

Well, excuse me, but it's clearly wrong for an equality test operator to
look so much like an augmented assignment statement ! I definately prefer
'<>' myself, anyway, I just wish I could use it in C without turning towards
preprocessor macros :)

+=-*=-/=-!=-ly y'rs,

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