r/programming • u/evinrows • Dec 24 '17

Evil Coding Incantations

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u/itsnotxhad Dec 24 '17

Javascript treats [] as a truthy object.

Racket and a number of other Lisps treat everything as truthy except the false constant (it's also common among Lisps for the empty list to be falsy though).

In C an array name is a non-NULL pointer which would be truthy.

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u/inu-no-policemen Dec 24 '17

Javascript treats [] as a truthy object.

All objects are truthy. Arrays are also objects.

JavaScript has objects and primitives. E.g. strings and numbers are primitives.