Remove/change ~= ?

[daurnimator]

FiraCode renders the ~= ligature like asymptotically equal to (U+2243: ≃).

In lua and MATLAB, ~= is not equal to.
Historical context: I believe ~ was chosen as it is the closest ascii character to the not sign (U+00AC: ¬)

[roryokane]

I wondered if this change would affect the Perl/Ruby regex match operator, but that’s =~, not ~=.

[dhouck]

Is there any language where ~= means ≃?

[mcepl]

Which way the duplicate goes? Is this duplicate of #293 or vice versa?

[dhouck]

No; that’s about =~ and this is about ~=.

[MadcapJake]

Also Dylan, Smalltalk, and BCPL use ~= to mean not equal to. Perl 6 uses =~= for the approx-equal operator.

[daurnimator]

bump, should someone send a PR removing it?

[tonsky]

I’ll remove it from the next release

[Lixquid]

Now that stylistic sets are supported, it'd be great to see this as a stylistic set!