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  • Comments can also be useful for explaining what the code is intended to do when debugging.

    “Hey this function says it should return the number of apples, but looks like someone, not saying who, but someone had a brain fart and typed oranges in one variable. Who wrote this code anyway?”

    -Last edited by JonEFive in 2021-

    Past me sucks.


  • Strict vs loose equality has gotten me so many times, but I can sort of see why they did it. The problem you mention with integers 0 & 1 is a major annoyance though. Like it is fairly common to check whether a variable is populated by using if (variable) {} - if the variable happens to be an integer, and that integer happens to be 0, loose quality will reflect that as false.

    But on the other side, there have been plenty of occasions where I’m expecting a boolean to come from somewhere and instead the data is passed as a text string. “true” == true but “true” !== true