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cgrinker
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3824 Posts
October 21 2009 16:54 GMT
#1


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
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Costa Rica2273 Posts
October 21 2009 17:00 GMT
#2
hmm

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

if (1 != 2)
{
}
build successful

i support this
Nightmare1795 wrote: I played a guy in bronze who said he was Japanese. That was the only game I ever dropped a nuke, which was purely coincidental.
fanatacist
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
10319 Posts
October 21 2009 17:00 GMT
#3
Your blog is NOT =/= pretentious

n_n; teehee
Peace~
mOnion
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States5660 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-21 17:01:40
October 21 2009 17:01 GMT
#4
this post != 1 star

this post = 5 stars

edit:dammit ninja'd
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selboN
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States2523 Posts
October 21 2009 17:04 GMT
#5
I'm partial to the =/=
I've never seen != used before and it looks awkward...
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Strayline
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States330 Posts
October 21 2009 17:05 GMT
#6
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 *
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States3573 Posts
October 21 2009 17:10 GMT
#7
My goodness, I never knew.
BlasiuS
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States2405 Posts
October 21 2009 17:11 GMT
#8
Being a TL member =/= knowing correct programming notation for "NOT EQUALS"

next week on Everybody Loves HypnoToad:
Jawa~
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States291 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-22 02:57:37
October 21 2009 17:15 GMT
#9
[image loading]



User was warned for this post.
Musoeun
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
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.)
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JeeJee
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Canada5652 Posts
October 21 2009 17:17 GMT
#11
why don't you use <> while you're at it too
pfft
(\o/)  If you want it, you find a way. Otherwise you find excuses. No exceptions.
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spinesheath
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Germany8679 Posts
October 21 2009 17:20 GMT
#12
!= is a great expression. I support this.
If you have a good reason to disagree with the above, please tell me. Thank you.
Hittegods
Profile Joined April 2007
Stockholm4642 Posts
October 21 2009 17:20 GMT
#13
What's wrong with ≠?
This neo violence, pure self defiance
Chromyne
Profile Joined January 2008
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.
Soli Deo gloria.
GHOSTCLAW
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States17042 Posts
October 21 2009 17:24 GMT
#15
On October 22 2009 02:23 Chromyne wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.


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
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andiCR
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
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
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tirentu
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
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
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-21 17:42:49
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.
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vx70GTOJudgexv
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States3161 Posts
October 21 2009 17:57 GMT
#19
Being a member of TL.net != Programming experience, understanding or interest.
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tarpman
Profile Joined February 2009
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.
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