[flir]

Shouldn't that logic also apply to ==, which overloads the assignment operator (=) in the same way?

[hn_throwaway_99]

Very much agree with this one, but would phrase it as using = to represent assignment was the bad original choice.

[giantrobot]

If the average keyboard had support, characters like ≡ could be used as the equivalence sigil and ≢ for not equivalent.