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reply "Joel C. Salomon" <JoelCSalomon Gmail.com> writes:
There are a couple of operators mentioned on 
<http://www.digitalmars.com/d/lex.html> that I haven’t seen described in 
the documentation: ‘===’, ‘!~’, and ‘~~’.  Any pointers on what
they are?

--Joel
Jan 31 2007
parent reply "Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:
"Joel C. Salomon" <JoelCSalomon Gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:eprrth$2qfp$1 digitaldaemon.com...

 There are a couple of operators mentioned on 
 <http://www.digitalmars.com/d/lex.html> that I haven't seen described in 
 the documentation: '===', '!~', and '~~'.  Any pointers on what they are?

 --Joel



=== is an ancient version of 'is' (and !== is what '!is' used to be).  They 
were removed quite some time ago.

~~ and !~ were for regular expression matching.  They lasted one release 
before they were removed.
Jan 31 2007
next sibling parent "Joel C. Salomon" <JoelCSalomon Gmail.com> writes:
Jarrett Billingsley wrote:

 "Joel C. Salomon" <JoelCSalomon Gmail.com> wrote in message 
 news:eprrth$2qfp$1 digitaldaemon.com...

 There are a couple of operators mentioned on 
 <http://www.digitalmars.com/d/lex.html> that I haven't seen described in 
 the documentation: '===', '!~', and '~~'.  Any pointers on what they are?

 --Joel



 === is an ancient version of 'is' (and !== is what '!is' used to be).  They 
 were removed quite some time ago.
 
 ~~ and !~ were for regular expression matching.  They lasted one release 
 before they were removed. 



Thanks.

I’m building a lexer for a C compiler (for a Compiler Theory class I’m 
taking) and I hoped I could make it more-or-less D-compatible, but ~~ 
and !~ could break C code; glad to know I can leave them out.

--Joel
Jan 31 2007
prev sibling parent Brad Roberts <braddr puremagic.com> writes:
Jarrett Billingsley wrote:

 "Joel C. Salomon" <JoelCSalomon Gmail.com> wrote in message 
 news:eprrth$2qfp$1 digitaldaemon.com...

 There are a couple of operators mentioned on 
 <http://www.digitalmars.com/d/lex.html> that I haven't seen described in 
 the documentation: '===', '!~', and '~~'.  Any pointers on what they are?

 --Joel



 === is an ancient version of 'is' (and !== is what '!is' used to be).  They 
 were removed quite some time ago.
 
 ~~ and !~ were for regular expression matching.  They lasted one release 
 before they were removed. 



Those should be yanked from the page, so... bug filed: 
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=913
Jan 31 2007