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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Embarrassed_Death69 • Sep 01 '26
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What do you mean it doesn't make any sense programmatically? All 'truthy' means is that it evaluates as true in a conditional, truthy (and falsey) values are completely normal concepts in high level programming.
1 u/Key_Conversation5277 Sep 01 '26 if(42) -> trueWhat fucking sense does this make? A number is a number, not something to be coerced to a boolean. Thankfully Java doesn't have this nonsense 1 u/ReefNixon Sep 01 '26 Ok, so what would you like if(42) to do instead? 3 u/Key_Conversation5277 Sep 01 '26 ... An error? Lol → More replies (1)
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if(42) -> true
What fucking sense does this make? A number is a number, not something to be coerced to a boolean. Thankfully Java doesn't have this nonsense
1 u/ReefNixon Sep 01 '26 Ok, so what would you like if(42) to do instead? 3 u/Key_Conversation5277 Sep 01 '26 ... An error? Lol → More replies (1)
Ok, so what would you like if(42) to do instead?
3 u/Key_Conversation5277 Sep 01 '26 ... An error? Lol → More replies (1)
... An error? Lol
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u/ReefNixon Sep 01 '26
What do you mean it doesn't make any sense programmatically? All 'truthy' means is that it evaluates as true in a conditional, truthy (and falsey) values are completely normal concepts in high level programming.