Tcl 8.5: in & ni
Once upon a time (Tcl 7.x; probably earlier too?) the best way to test for string equality in Tcl was:
if {[string compare $x $y] == 0} ...
Beginning with Tcl 8.1.1 the preferred way became:
if {[string equal $x $y]} ...
Beginning with Tcl 8.4 and the introduction of the eq and ne operators testing for string equality became much more concise:
if {$x eq $y} ...
Much more readable, concise, and less to type. In Tcl 8.5 we get a simillar improvement for testing whether a particular item is a member (or not) of a list:
if {$x in $y} ...
Which IMHO is a huge improvement over the former idiom:
if {[lsearch -exact $y $x] != -1} ...
Naturally ni
is to ne
as in
is to
eq
. And to top it all off, ni is fun to say too.
—Michael A. Cleverly
Saturday, January 05, 2008 at 19:49
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