-hh wrote:
>> R.G. wrote
>> If we were to look for not-equal-to operators that affect large
>> numbers of people, it might be worth considering supporting "!=",
>> since a majority of other languages support so for today's audience
>> (and more importantly tomorrow's) that habit impacts orders of
>> magnitude more developers than an old HyperCard-specific token.
>
> This is certainly NOT a problem that is specially linked to HyperCard.
> We have it always when importing any 8-bit data from earlier Macs.
>
> This is more generally a problem of *Encoding*. The specials of the
> extended Macintosh codeTable (here: char 173) and the differences
> to Latin-1 (or HTML entities, where is the optional
> hyphen) etc.
For data you're absolutely right, which is why the team spent so much
time implementing Unicode.
But in this thread Terence's concern was more specific. It wasn't about
merely displaying "≠" as data. The issue here is about the semantics of
that character when it appears in scripts.
When used as data, such as in a quoted string, "≠" was no better or
worse than anything else not found in Latin ISO 8859-1, formerly the
engine's native character set.
With v7 and later the problem with displaying "≠" as data has been
solved. The only remaining issue is whether is should be supported
across platforms as an evaluation operator.
Personally, I don't care one way or another; I was just noting that we
have a long list of things to do and this one seems pretty low in the
priority queue given how few people it affects.
> "!=" is a good solution (as it is one out of the ASCCI 7-bit range).
Agreed. I was very impressed Mark Wieder implemented that as quickly as
he did - thanks Mark!
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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