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In JS: -0 + 0; // 0 -0 + (-0); // -0 -0 - 0; // -0 I claim that the `-0 + 0` case is the strange inconsistent one, so that's the reason for my WTF label. ---- Consider the counter-…

The "WTF" label is not about correctness, it's about surprise/intuition. It doesn't really matter to me whether it's mathematically or IEEE correct. It's strange and inconsistent. …

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Just FTR: this is not accidental or lazy on my part. It's highly intentional. But I can certainly appreciate that it frustrates some learners. There's a principle called "Cognitive…

First, I think it's disingenuous for an author to revel only in the positive reviews and "just ignore" the negative. An author should take all feedback and do the best with it he/s…

I'm excited about the `SharedArrayBuffer` addition, but quite meh on the `Atomic.wait()` and `Atomic.wake()`. I think CSP's channel-based message control is a far better fit here, …

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YAML claims to not be markup, but it clearly is a markup for data (significant whitespace/indentation, etc). When I want to do markup, I use Markdown. When I want to data serializa…

I didn't mention in my comment, but I also use Markdown for all my technical documentation (READMEs) on my dozens of github OSS projects. I have lots of cross-references and I use …

The books were intended as source material for publishing, so I didn't embed any crosslinks in the documents. However, I always use markdown for all my OSS project documentation (R…

I wrote a six book, 1100 page series in Markdown (all on github). I write all my blog posts in Markdown. I'm sorry but I just can't sympathize with any of the complaints leveled ag…

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> If you pass a reference to the x array to a function This notion (concern) is meaningless in JS, since when you pass any reference, it's always a reference-copy, so there's no va…

It's not the core argument. It was a tangential side note in the blog post.

But my post did actually conclude the cases where it's useful. It seems like a lot of people here only read the first half of the post and stopped. I don't think `const` should be …