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Re:1/0 = 0 by l_t on Friday August 10, 2018 @07:54PM (#17737514)
Boolean operators returning values is common, especially in dynamically typed languages. The code is valid in JavaScript, for example, and in Python (except it uses "or" instead of "||").
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Re:1/0 = 0 by user5994461 on Friday August 10, 2018 @08:24PM (#17737607)
In python, it should probably be corrected with // or 1.0 to make it either an integer division or a float division.
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Re:1/0 = 0 by l_t on Friday August 10, 2018 @08:45PM (#17737667)
Ah, that's true. Good point.
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