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Language design : use equals symbol = both for affectation and comparison, like in MySQL
I'm currently designing a database query language and I came to wonder what should be the best syntax for the comparison operator.
Most modern languages use ==, but amongst the database languages ...
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What are the most idiomatic abbreviations for comparison operators [closed]
I am wondering what the most idiomatic text abbreviations for comparison operators are. I need to build a custom enum with them, so I cannot use their symbols. To me personally, these seem idiomatic:
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Why do most mainstream languages not support "x < y < z" syntax for 3-way Boolean comparisons?
If I want to compare two numbers (or other well-ordered entities), I would do so with x < y. If I want to compare three of them, the high-school algebra student will suggest trying x < y < z....
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Using PHP's ternary operator with only two arguments
I was recently reviewing some of my code and noticed that in a fit of absent-mindedness, I'd left a structure like the following:
$guid = empty($subscription->guid) ? : $subscription->guid;
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Is there any reason why most programming languages don't have '!>' (not greater than) and '!<' (not less than) operators?
I wonder if there is any reason - or if it is just an accident of history - that there are no !> and !< operators in most programming languages?
a >= b (a greater OR equals b) could be ...
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Greater than or identical to?
While browsing my code in a weakly-typed language I was seeing that I've trained myself to use identity (===) where logical. Then I came across a greater (or less) than or equal to (>=), and it ...
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