Obsolesence of <>

Barry A. Warsaw barry at digicool.com
Thu May 31 01:25:34 EDT 2001


>>>>> "D" == D-Man  <dsh8290 at rit.edu> writes:

    D> The Pascal-ish inequality operator ('<>') has effectively been
    D> deprecated in favor of the Algol-ish (C-ish) inequality
    D> operator ('!=').

    D> I don't believe it will be removed from the compiler any time
    D> soon, but nobody uses it anyways.

Not necessarily true.  I use it and strongly prefer it.  I know that
Guido dislikes <> enough to actually change it to != in the standard
library.  I personally hope that <> will never go away.

-Barry





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