"!=" is bad form. Re: sorry....never mind

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Mar 8 19:25:18 EST 2001


Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> 
> Icon uses "~=" for numbers and "~==" for strings. 

And I seem to recall it also uses ~=== for something else
as well (lists? dictionaries?).

By the time I got to the part about the corresponding 
assignment operators (~===:= et al) my brain was
laughing itself silly and thinking "This has *got* to
be a joke!"

Unfortunately, it wasn't.

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