> This feels like adding braces to Python because you don't like indenting your code.
replyNow this I can get behind...
You need Bython https://github.com/mathialo/bython
replyRuby has both kinds of operators as well, and it's fine. The thing in Ruby, though, is that the English logical operators have lower precedence than the symbolic logical operators, so you can use them in place of parentheses. Sometimes that's confusing, other times it can be used to make code very readable.
replyIn general, I would expect symbolic operators to be desirable in complex boolean expressions, because "loud punctuation" stands out among English words when reading the code.
Same in Perl, hence the good old pattern:
reply open my $fh, '<', 'input.txt' or die;yes, ruby inherited this from perl, though 'or' has lower precedence than 'and' in perl, and they're equal in ruby. Which sounds like something going to cause mistakes, but I yet to see 'and' and 'or' together in the same expression in ruby.
replyI've always found it odd that and/or in Ruby isn't just considered equal to &&/||, and I have never really used the english operators except for the usual modifiers like if and unless.
replyWhat is a practical use case where the lower precedence makes sense?
Those two behave in the same way if you drop the parentheses:
reply1. statement if (condition || something)
2. (statement if condition) or something
> Why though? What does changing `and` to `&&` actually achieve? Were people confused?
replyAlso consider AI, that has a greater training base of JavaScript than Lua. So making Lua look more like JS, should improve output and reduce mistakes.
No, don't consider AI.
replyI can't imagine that making the differences between the languages more subtle would improve the performance of chatbots. Subtleties aren't their strong suit.
replyAI has greater training on Python, which uses `and` and `or`, and it has absolutely no issue keeping that straight.
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