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TheCoelacanth
on June 28, 2021
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JavaScript Is Weird
I doubt that anyone who hasn't written JS will recognize !! as an idiom for converting to boolean.
tyingq
on June 28, 2021
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That kind of type coercion predates JS.
perl -e 'print !!"whee"' 1 php -r 'print !!"whee";' 1 awk 'BEGIN {print !!"whee"}' 1
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