cm0002@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 4 days agoWhich of these javascript expressions is false?lemmy.mlimagemessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1499arrow-down111
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minus-squarejaark@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-24 days agoI don’t think my sanity can take all of these explanations. Though I just spotted one that’s worse than null being an object … typeof NaN "number" I mean, come on… it’s even in the fucking name! Edit - fixed capitalisation in ‘NaN’
minus-squarezarkanian@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 days agoDouglas Crockford has a whole chapter of these in his latest book. There’s also this classic video.
minus-squareNat (she/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 days agoNumber = IEEE-754 double precision float, which includes NaN, so it makes sense
I don’t think my sanity can take all of these explanations.
Though I just spotted one that’s worse than null being an object …
typeof NaN "number"I mean, come on… it’s even in the fucking name!
Edit - fixed capitalisation in ‘NaN’
Douglas Crockford has a whole chapter of these in his latest book. There’s also this classic video.
Number = IEEE-754 double precision float, which includes NaN, so it makes sense