OpenEuphoria

Re: ? 1={}, is there really any other interpretation?

• Posted by Andy Serpa <ac at onehorses?y.com> Jul 16, 2007
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Everytime this subject comes up, I suggest the same thing, but no one ever
comments.  First of all, the idea of changing the behavior of existing operators
is crazy -- you'll break too much code; it is too late for that (by 18 years). 
[It would break virtually ALL of my code -- to me sequence ops *IS* Euphoria --
that's why I use it.]  Second of all, the functionality the complainers want
already exists in the language -- they just don't like to type the correct
functions to use it.

So the answer is, of course, just to ADD NEW OPERATORS -- just add a colon (or
whatever) to each operator to make it a strict boolean operator:

:<
:=
:>

etc.

Problem solved.  No code breaks, and you've got some nice shortcuts so you never
have to type compare().  What's the problem with that?