On 1/25/2023 5:42 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
Try this (or its equivalent) in as many languages as possible:
x = (1 > 2)
x == 0
You'll find that x (which has effectively been set to False, or its
equivalent in any language) will be equal to zero in a very large
number of languages. Thus, to an experienced programmer, it would
actually be quite the opposite: having it NOT be a number would be the
surprising thing!
I thought I had already responded to this, but I can't see it. Weird.
Anyway, straight out of the Chrome DevTools console:
x = (1>2)
false
x == 0
true
typeof(x)
'boolean'
typeof(0)
'number'
typeof(x) == 'number'
false
So, you are technically correct, but you can see that JavaScript - which
comes with many gotchas - does not offer this particular one.
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