And I'm going to tell you why.

A lot of users have recently started using inequalities in their post. For instance, "Being a member of TL does NOT make you a good SC player." Notice the not in saying that the field on the left and the field on the right are unequal.

Now, I continualy see people using two equal signs and a forward slash to represent not equal. That is ugly and wrong and if you do it then you are lame. Use "!=" to represent not equal.

Have a Good Day!

-Cg

andiCR

Costa Rica2273 Posts

October 21 2009 17:00 GMT

hmm

if (1 =/= 2)
{
}
error: expected primary-expression before "/=" token

if (1 != 2)
{
}
build successful

i support this

fanatacist

10319 Posts

October 21 2009 17:00 GMT

Your blog is NOT =/= pretentious

n_n; teehee

mOnion

United States5657 Posts

October 21 2009 17:01 GMT

this post != 1 star

this post = 5 stars

edit:dammit ninja'd

selboN

United States2523 Posts

October 21 2009 17:04 GMT

I'm partial to the =/=
I've never seen != used before and it looks awkward...

Strayline

United States330 Posts

October 21 2009 17:05 GMT

It's worse than that IMO

You would never say like

if(teamliquid.contains(member))
{
assert(member == good)
}

because that would be a terrible equality operator to write.

The member object would never be equal to the good object.

It would really be like:

assert(isGoodPlayer(member));

== is really direct equality not "this predicate applies to this object"

Snet

United States3573 Posts

October 21 2009 17:10 GMT

My goodness, I never knew.

BlasiuS

United States2405 Posts

October 21 2009 17:11 GMT

Being a TL member =/= knowing correct programming notation for "NOT EQUALS"

Jawa~

United States291 Posts

October 21 2009 17:15 GMT

User was warned for this post.

Musoeun

United States4324 Posts

October 21 2009 17:16 GMT

#10

Being a TL member =/= having to speak in programming. != does not looks like it means "does not equal", whatever programmers say. =/= does. Hey, if everybody used Macs we could just use the actual sign. (Not saying we should all use Macs, just pointing this out.)

JeeJee

Canada5652 Posts

October 21 2009 17:17 GMT

#11

why don't you use <> while you're at it too
pfft

spinesheath

Germany8679 Posts

October 21 2009 17:20 GMT

#12

!= is a great expression. I support this.

Hittegods

Stockholm4641 Posts

October 21 2009 17:20 GMT

#13

What's wrong with ≠?

Chromyne

Canada561 Posts

October 21 2009 17:23 GMT

#14

On October 22 2009 01:54 cgrinker wrote:

And I'm going to tell you why.

A lot of users have recently started using inequalities in their post. For instance, "Being a member of TL does NOT make you a good SC player." Notice the not in saying that the field on the left and the field on the right are unequal.

Now, I continualy see people using two equal signs and a forward slash to represent not equal. That is ugly and wrong and if you do it then you are lame. Use "!=" to represent not equal.

Have a Good Day!

-Cg

You never explained why it's wrong. You just gave a subjective opinion (that it's ugly). Unless the admins reinforce it, I don't see why this is wrong. This is a gaming forum not a programming forum.

GHOSTCLAW

United States17042 Posts

October 21 2009 17:24 GMT

#15

On October 22 2009 02:23 Chromyne wrote:

Show nested quote +

You never explained why it's wrong. You just gave a subjective opinion (that it's ugly). Unless the admins reinforce it, I don't see why this is wrong. This is a gaming forum not a programming forum.

I think that it's pretty clear that it's an opinion - I think that everyone would agree that as long as you are understandable when you make your argument, that it doesn't matter for clarity's sake.

subjective opinions are allowed...and not enforced.

this almost follows the guide for trolling though xD

andiCR

Costa Rica2273 Posts

October 21 2009 17:25 GMT

#16

On October 22 2009 02:20 Hittegods wrote:
What's wrong with ≠?

you have to go to charmap to use it lOL

tirentu

Canada1257 Posts

October 21 2009 17:35 GMT

#17

From a programming standpoint you're right. From a real world standpoint, nobody cares!

Though seriously, =/= bugs me too. If you can't make a strike through a single =, then use !=, the rational alternative.

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

October 21 2009 17:42 GMT

#18

I use != when I can be assured people know what it means. I use =/= when that's not guaranteed. Obviously, the latter applies to TL.net.

vx70GTOJudgexv

United States3161 Posts

October 21 2009 17:57 GMT

#19

Being a member of TL.net != Programming experience, understanding or interest.

tarpman

Canada723 Posts

October 21 2009 18:02 GMT

#20

Maybe most programming languages don't recognize it, but ≠ is a perfectly valid mathematical symbol. I agree that =/= is ugly and nonsensical though; I'd rather see != if people aren't going to bother typing the correct symbol.