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

[Werner Schiendl]

Personally I have no problem with != because I have to use C and C++ for
many task at may job.
However, I think <> is more intuitive to the novice and maybe the same
widely used...

Maybe not the very best examples, but Basic and Pascal use it too

Probably it's the best to just let two of them be valid...

regards
werner

Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote in message
news:3AA72768.30243C29 at alcyone.com...
> James Logajan wrote:
>
> > Actually, for Python, "!=" IS totally bogus and should be considered
> > the
> > unusual variant. Unless the logical negation operation has been
> > changed from
> > "not" to "!" (shucks, version 1.5.2 still does all I need) then "!="
> > is not
> > suggestive of anything.
>
> It's a sequence of characters, very commonly used in programming
> languages to indicate inequality.  Sometimes you actually have to learn
> things; not everything can instantly make sense without reading some
> documentation.
>
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