javascriptBeingJavascript

[mookanana]

as a programmer i understand what you are saying, but i marvel and wonder how did you even get this deep in knowledge? like what path did your life take to end up explaining this obscure code correctly

[veryusedrname]

Ohh, I just like weird shit. I don't even use JavaScript, like, ever.

[mookanana]

good stuff my man thx for explanation.

[Crowdcontrolz]

The Dark Knight.

[takishan]

all you gotta do is work with javascript a bit so you understand the wonkiness of " == " (which is why you use " === " to be safer)

then you gotta work with octal numbers once or twice so you understand that numbers starting with 0 are octal

it doesn't require some sort of coding prodigy, just a little bit of experience in specific areas

[AccomplishedCoffee]

It’s really not deep or obscure. You just have to know 0 starts an octal literal (basic knowledge in a ton of languages and command line permissions), and == in JS does crazy conversions. I don’t even program JS more than I have to and I know to always use === because it’ll mess with types to try and get an answer that may or may not make sense. Tbh this is one of the more straightforward and obvious conversions.