Le 26 juin 2014 � 12:46, Nicolas Cellier a �crit :

$! is not classified as a binary character right now, is it?
Of course it's possible but I'd just say why this particular symbol?

It does not look mathematical either. Or do you love C/C++ so much?

Of course not. It is just because it is something widely used but other names could do the stuff like <> or /=

Note that ~= has same meaning in Matlab.

There are other possibilities like /=  or <> (Fortran 95, ADA), even the long form =/=.

But frankly, I don't buy this kind of change, for the sake of looking like some {} language, making such a deep change is overkill.

Indeed it is a deep change but maybe at least we could have an alias and use it for all new code. At a time, it will be less painful to do this change.

As expressed in another thread, Smalltalk code convention for method naming strategy is intention revealing.

That said, I think ~= is not intention revealing and it will be good to fix or propose a good alternative.