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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