POV: you don’t understand type coercion
This one is one of my favourite JS quirks:
Ok some of these I understand but what the fuck. Why.
Edit: ok I have a theory. == checks equality without casting to any types, so they’re not equal. But < and > are numeric operations, so null gets cast to 0. So <= and >= cast it to 0, and it’s equal to 0, so it’s true.
I’m not sure if you really want to know, but:
greater than, smaller than, will cast the type so it will be
0which is false, ofcourse.=0is 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? :-)
edit: as several people already pointed out, my answer is not accurate. The real solution was mentioned by mycus
This build on that humorously: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
I know it’s a joke, but it’s an old one and it doesn’t make a lot of sense in this day and age.
Why are you comparing null to numbers? Shouldn’t you be assuring your values are valid first? Why are you using the “cast everything to the type you see fit and compare” operator?
Other languages would simply fail. Once more JavaScript greatest sin is not throwing an exception when you ask it to do things that don’t make sense.
Shouldn’t you be assuring your values are valid first?
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