Quadruple Precision Comparison Operator is Too Intuitive

[rachidlamouri]

From the spec:

print(3.14 ==== 3.14)! //true

This should be false since those are two independent literals.

However the following makes sense because the programmer probably really wants it to be true

print(3.14 ==== 3.14)!!! //true

[stohrendorf]

So... are you saying the compiler/interpreter should respect comments?

[Nico314159]

So... are you saying the compiler/interpreter should respect comments?

no, it means it should return a different result depending on the number of ! characters

[rachidlamouri]

@stohrendorf, no I wasn't saying that. But now I am. I've always wanted a program that has built in comment association.

[james-cnz]

This seems to be a different, stricter semantics than the quadruple equals operator. I think it would be more appropriate to add a pentuple equals operator for this, to avoid breaking backwards compatibility.