NumOp/StrOp (with respect to !=/!==)

[jeeswg]

OT

I've been reasonable, and I've been straightforward, unlike you. I have a ~500 rating at Stack Overflow. I've spoken to Helgef. Leave me alone and stop making stuff up. This thread alone is evidence enough to have you banned. I can find other threads too. (Some of your posts against other people are even worse than these ones.) I am minded to defend your ability to post but you need to tone things down. When you're in a hole, stop digging.

Do you have a professional reputation to maintain? Think about how others will view your posts. If you remove your posts, I can edit out mine.

The ultimate bullying tactic is to claim that the other person is the bully. Another classic tactic is to try and make people feel alienated and alone. Look how even with that little kczx3 post, you extracted the maximum negativity. People on this forum are not stupid, they can deconstruct your rhetoric. You go for plausible deniability, you go for attacks that in isolation don't look that bad.

Look in the mirror? I'm always improving my methods and aiming for the highest standards. Don't like a post of mine? Deconstruct it for me or suggest amendments in private, and I'll see if anything can be gained.

We all have to work together at the end of the day. You say that I have to look in the mirror. Equally I could say the same about you. However, in an arbitration situation I would win the argument, the evidence is in my favour, it's as clear as day.

I really don't want to say anything more negative about you. And it won't take very much for me to amend my posts such that in effect nothing ever happened. Try and make it easier for me to do this.

I like a little rhetorical battle, but you take things way too far. Also, it's really really unfortunate that you should take away some of my time from more valuable pursuits.

The material in my discussion with nnnik here could mark one of the most exciting jumps on these forums.

[Helgef]

What are your arguments?

You have only repeated what was already said on github. So why did we need this thread, and why shouldn't we have used github? Please do not answer that, we have achieved nothing.

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- But using an operator is less verbose, and I usually only want 2 results (yes/no).

You say I, but assuming you actually mean one, i.e., you consider what is best for most users, I highly doubt this is true. My guess is that <1% of uses of < > are meant to compare strings, and >99% of the string compairson cases are for sort callbacks, i.e., one uses both < >. The other cases are such cases as Lexikos examplified. No one is doing,

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if animal < 'cat'
	msgbox 'its an animal alphabetically less than cat :=)'

And that is the only case where the operators are better than a StrCompare function, imo.

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I'd be fine with the operators doing string compairson if mixed types weren't allowed, but that clearly isn't the route AHK is taking. Even then, I do not think they would be very useful, but they would be safer.

You also refer to my plan, as if there was one, there isn't.

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I hope this thread ends here, and if someone has something related to ahk to discuss, they start a new thread with a clear singular topic.

Cheers, and good lock.

[nnnik]

I think I will lock this topic.
It has greatly deviated from anything that should be discussed in this forums.
I also think that this is a nice point to make people calm down.
So this topic is now locked.