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From Julien Rouhaud
Subject Re: add operator ^= to mean not equal (like != and <>)
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In response to Re: add operator ^= to mean not equal (like != and <>)  (Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>)
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Le mar. 10 août 2021 à 18:41, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> a écrit :
> On 10 Aug 2021, at 12:21, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm strongly against inheriting warts from Oracle for apparently good
> reason. At the very least, anyone who's using ^= for some other
> purpose is very likely to be upset with us. Anyone else who really
> needs this for compatibility reasons can just create a set of
> operators for themselves.

Agreed, if it’s because of Oracle compatibility then this seems like something
which has a better fit in orafce or a similar extension like that.

+1

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