Re: make == as = ?

El Mié 07 Abr 2004 06:28, Fabien COELHO escribió:
> > > > =? as != is a synonum for <>, it would make sense.
> > >
> > > That was never such a terribly good idea, IMHO.
> >
> > Agreed. Compilers should give errors and not try to work around bad code.
>
> Is it bad code? Not for people who come from a C/C++/Java background.
> They are used to operators such as == !=  % && || !... Some of these
> are available from pg, some are not, so at the time it is incoherent.

I have such a background, and still don't use != to ask for inequality. The
correct thing to use is <>, because thats what the SQL standards say.

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