Re: Where did /= come from?

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I think Ada could be more consistent regarding "/=".
consider following invariant expressed in C and Ada
C: !(A==B) same as (A != B)
Ada: not (A = B), but (A not = B) is incorrect syntax.

Alexei.

"Preben Randhol" <randhol+news@pvv.org> wrote in message
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> Matthew Baulch wrote:
> >
> > I'm not advocating C when I say this, but != makes far more sense than
/=
> > lexically speaking. In C, the Negative of a bool is retrieved with !foo.
> > In Ada, not foo. So I believe that K&R got it right using the !=
operator
> > for 'not equal'. Ada on the other hand doesn't use the ! operator and
"not
> > equal" is too clumsy so it could be far worse than '/='.
>
> Well you can argue that they got it wrong when they chose ! in stead of
> not and = instead of := and == in stead of = ;-)
>
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