B4J Question The == Relational Operator

[aminoacid]

I was going through an old B4J program that I had written a while ago and that has been working perfectly well, when I noticed that in several relational expressions I had used the "==" operator (being used to C programming) instead of "=". The compiler had not flagged it as a syntax error.

You can verify that in relational expressions, "==" works the same as "=", at least in B4J. I have not tried it in B4A and B4I.

Log (5 == 4) returns false and Log(5 == 5) returns true

Question (targeted at Erel) - Is it okay to leave the code as-is, or change the operators back to "=" ? Was it intentional to have the undocumented "==" operator available in B4X?

 

[LucaMs]

Question (targeted at Erel)

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/b4x-more-operators.114956/post-718280

 

[Erel]

the correct syntax is '='. The current parser treats '==' exactly the same way as '='. I don't think that it will change in the near future but it is better to stick with the correct syntax.

 

[aminoacid]

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/b4x-more-operators.114956/post-718280

Aaw... you busted my bubble. I searched for any discussion on this topic and couldn't find any. So I thought I discovered an Easter egg. ?