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[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (12 children)

num % 2 isn't a boolean result in any of these languages, so I feel like it would always output "odd"

Edit: 0 is false, everything else is true.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

You'd be surprised.

But seriously, numbers can be used as booleans in an impressive number of languages. Including machine code for almost every machine out there.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

The joys of dynamic typing.

[–] Maven@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In JS 0 is the same as False

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They are not the same, but 0 can be implicitly converted to false.

What do you get if you do: 0 === false

[–] Lysergid@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago
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