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Ask HN: Anybody knows why do (0, 0, 1) evaluate to 1 in JavaScript?

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Post by fatih-erikli » Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 4:53 PM UTC

I understand that in this way:

- Tuples not supported, the last item is returned, for a Python programmer perspective.

- It's a function call. Function name is not given, so the last argument is returned.

Re: Ask HN: Anybody knows why do (0, 0, 1) evaluate to 1 in JavaScript?

#2

Post by Someone » Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 4:57 PM UTC

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Re: Ask HN: Anybody knows why do (0, 0, 1) evaluate to 1 in JavaScript?

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Post by cranberryturkey » Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 5:01 PM UTC

yes. its doing `(false, false, true)` basically. last argument is true.

Re: Ask HN: Anybody knows why do (0, 0, 1) evaluate to 1 in JavaScript?

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Post by fatih-erikli » Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 5:12 PM UTC

Someone wrote: post #2

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Thanks for the link.

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