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Re:Algorithms in PHP: Deques by firasd on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:32PM (#32827529)
Oh my mistake. Still stuff like 'return a || b' is the kind of thing I see in JS way more than in PHP codebases
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Re:Algorithms in PHP: Deques by deergomoo on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @05:47PM (#32830565)
Probably because the Boolean operators in JS return the left or right side of the expression, rather than a Boolean.

It was an okay-ish way to get a default/fallback value before JS got a proper coalescing operator.

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