• Julian
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    112 years ago

    Ok some of these I understand but what the fuck. Why.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      I’m not sure if you really want to know, but:

      greater than, smaller than, will cast the type so it will be 0>0 which is false, ofcourse. 0>=0 is true.

      Now == will first compare types, they are different types so it’s false.

      Also I’m a JavaScript Dev and if I ever see someone I work with use these kind of hacks I’m never working together with them again unless they apologize a lot and wash their dirty typing hands with… acid? :-)

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Not a JavaScript dev here, but I work with it. Doesn’t “==” do type coercion, though? Isn’t that why “===” exists?

        As far as I know the operators “>=” and “<=” are implemented as the negation of “<” and “>” respectively. Why: because when you are working with sticky ordered sets, like natural numbers, those operators work.

        Thus “0<=0” -> “!(0>0)” -> “!(false)” -> “true”

        Correct me if my thinking is wrong though.