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Re: GNU Octave Code Style: Prefer ~= or !=?
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Andrew Janke |
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Re: GNU Octave Code Style: Prefer ~= or !=? |
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Mon, 20 Jan 2020 23:56:46 -0500 |
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On 1/20/20 11:52 PM, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
> On 1/21/20 12:25 PM, Andrew Janke wrote:
>> Hi y'all,
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>> Can I get a ruling on a Code Style issue for
>> https://wiki.octave.org/Octave_style_guide?
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>> Do you prefer ~= or != for "not equal" comparisons?
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>> The code style says "!" is preferred over "~" but it doesn't explicitly
>> talk about "!=" vs "~=".
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>> Cheers,
>> Andrew
>>
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> Thanks for expanding the wiki about this. Statistically I would say
> Octave prefers "!=":
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> $ find . -iname "*.m" -exec grep "~=" {} \; | wc -l
> 16
> $ find . -iname "*.m" -exec grep "!=" {} \; | wc -l
> 910
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> Best,
> Kai
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You're welcome!
I checked with mtmiller on IRC and he also says "!=".
I've sent in a PR to TextMate to update their Octave grammar to reflect
this. https://github.com/textmate/matlab.tmbundle/pull/10
Cheers,
Andrew