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- Subject: Re: Bitwise confusion?
- From: Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@...>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 16:41:59 -0500
On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Ką Mykolas <kamicc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/7/16, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Basically, you should always use a conditional operator (!= 0 perhaps)
>> when using the result of bitwise ops in a conditional.
>
> In case of Lua:
> ~= 0
>
> ;)
>
Side question for Roberto and Luiz: why was ~= chosen for "not equals"
instead of the more standard != in most languages? Having to remember
to use ~= instead of != is a bit annoying when I'm switching back and
forth between multiple languages for different projects.