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On 10/12/2011 22:20, Eliot Miranda wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Colin
Putney <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Eliot Miranda <<a
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> People avoid it because of performance. But I much
prefer foo ~~ bar ifTrue: than foo == bar ifFalse:. So I
suspect/hope dynamic frequency will grow as people find its
not such a performance issue any more.<br>
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Well, no accounting for taste, I guess. I'd avoid it because I
much<br>
prefer foo == bar iFalse:<br>
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<div>But why, if it doesn't express intent directly? It's
cognitively more difficult. You have to negate to get the
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It's really the same either way. My main reason for disliking ~= and
~~ is that both of these are aesthetically unpleasing. I'd much
rather see <> instead of ~= and perhaps <==> instead of
~~.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
- Andreas<br>
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