Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> I don't really agree that visual correlation needs to trump everything.
> If say
> foo =~ bar
> and
> foo ~= bar
> were to produce completely different results, this would introduce bugs
> all over the place.
Huh? That's about like arguing that standard mathematical notation is
broken because a < b and a > b don't produce the same result.
regards, tom lane