# Aliases for \`=\` and \`==\`

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/aliases-for-and/60004>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** proposal\
**Created:** [April 25, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/aliases-for-and/60004 "2021-04-25T21:35:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Emanuel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jeff_emanuel/32/15440_2.png) [@Jeff\_Emanuel](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Jeff_Emanuel)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 7:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/aliases-for-and/60004/19 "2021-04-26T19:49:55Z")

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All this discussion of making Julia look like another language reminds me of the days when people would abuse the C preprocessor to make their C code look a bit more like Pascal. It did no one any good. You still couldn’t write Pascal and feed it to your C compiler, no one conversant with C could read your code, and it slowed learning proper C. Just bite the bullet and learn the language instead of doing a half-baked emulation for another language.

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