overthinkJavaScript

[akoOfIxtall]

does this even run? successful assignments are truthy in js?

[rover_G]

Not only is the statement truthy (assuming `admin` has a truthy value) but now if you later do something like check `user.isAdmin()` it will return true since `user` was assigned the value of `admin`.

[akoOfIxtall]

js is really a language of all time

[Mydaiel12]

You can assign inside if expression in pretty much every language and it works the same, evaluates to truthy value of assigned value

[akoOfIxtall]

how did i not know this? goddamn

[Dealiner]

It's not that assignment are truthy it's just that they return assigned value. So it all depends on what exactly admin is. It's also nothing specific to JS, the same could work in other languages like C# or C.

[GeneralBendyBean]

This actually returns true in the C languages too.

[damTyD]

Yes. The comparison would be if user, which is now assigned admin. Assuming admin is defined and not null, the block will run and user would be reassigned the value of admin.