cm0002@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 4 days agoWhich of these javascript expressions is false?lemmy.mlimagemessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1503arrow-down111cross-posted to: programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareFooBarrington@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·4 days agotypeof null === "object" was actually a bug in the early implementations, and they decided to keep it in the spec: https://2ality.com/2013/10/typeof-null.html (see the comment from Brendan Eich)
minus-squaregnutrino@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·edit-24 days agoTony Hoare: “Introducing NULL was a billion-dollar mistake” Brendan Eich: “Hold my undefined”
minus-squareFooBarrington@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·4 days agoWe had one null, yes. But what about second null?
typeof null === "object"
was actually a bug in the early implementations, and they decided to keep it in the spec: https://2ality.com/2013/10/typeof-null.html(see the comment from Brendan Eich)
Tony Hoare: “Introducing NULL was a billion-dollar mistake”
Brendan Eich: “Hold my undefined”
We had one
null
, yes. But what about secondnull
?