I'm wondering if it's just foolish consistency (to quote a PEP 8) that is
calling for the dropping of in preference of only !=. I've used the former
since the beginning in everything from basic, fortran, claris works, excel,
gnumeric, and python. I tried to find a rationale for the
On Feb 9, 2006, at 3:41 AM, Smith wrote:
I'm wondering if it's just foolish consistency (to quote a PEP 8)
that is calling for the dropping of in preference of only !=.
I've used the former since the beginning in everything from basic,
fortran, claris works, excel, gnumeric, and
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 07:39:06AM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
I've long advocated for keeping as I find it much more visually
distinctive when reading code.
+1. And, two years ago, in his PyCon keynote, Guido forgot to say was
going away, so I think Barry and I are completely in our rights
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 19:10 -0500, Jim Jewett wrote:
Logically, = means the same as or =
does not mean the same as or ; it might just mean that
they aren't comparable. Whether that is a strong enough reason
to remove it is another question.
Visually, == looks very symmetrical and
