JavaScript: Double Bitwise Not (~~)

Re:JavaScript: Double Bitwise Not (~~) by iforgotpassword on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @04:33AM (#38457342)

Then we should consider these reserved keywords and run a transpiler on our code that converts those to the unholy && and || syntax that makes the code really hard to read. You shouldn't expect every junior programmer to invest the necessary time to learn the meaning of all this archaic symbol salad.

While at it we should also remove curly braces and go with Basic's if/end if, function/end function and so on.

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Re:JavaScript: Double Bitwise Not (~~) by cristeigabriel on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @06:00AM (#38457933)

`&&` and `||` are very well defined (for the better part, there's languages where `||` does more than just Logical OR.), this double-not hack is just a hack, and can be achieved in many more ways. Stop trying to be obfuscatingly clever, the right time and place for that is outside of professional environments. You don't go around applying tricks from Hacker's Delight without explaining them, do you?

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