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The Holy Trinity of JavaScript (programming.dev)
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[–] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

yeah but why is a single character string containing a tab equal to zero ???

[–] Limitless_screaming@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That would be weird if a string containing a space wasn't equal to 0 " " == 0, but that's not the case in JS. If you think that "" and " " being equal to 0 is weird then I agree, but since they are, you should expect "\t" and "\n" to equal 0 too.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The == operator in JS will try to cast the things being compared and do all kinds of 'smart' assumptions about what equality means. This is why everyone uses === instead...

[–] 8bitguy@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Unless you enjoy inviting the chaos.