# My Brain Is Hard-Wired Against ==; Help Me, Julia

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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question, syntax\
**Created:** [June 25, 2021, 6:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/my-brain-is-hard-wired-against-help-me-julia/63532 "2021-06-25T06:16:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![D\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@D\_A](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/D_A)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 11:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/my-brain-is-hard-wired-against-help-me-julia/63532/18 "2021-06-25T11:48:47Z")

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I understand you very well and I am glad to see that I am not alone…

It reminds me of this [post](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/aliases-for-and/60004/17)…

Personally, as I often work with SQL, XSL (and XPath), I regularly make this mistake too by putting `=` instead of `==` for equality, and as the `≠` symbol is shorter and cleaner (I never use `!=`), I tend to do my tests reversed with `≠` instead of direct `==`…

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