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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months ago

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months ago
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    ('b' + 'a' + + 'a' + 'a').toLowerCase()
    

    Returns “banana”

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      wut

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        I’m guessing the + + in the middle returns NaN

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          Indeed, the unary plus operator tries to convert whatever is after it to a number if it isn’t already. Since ‘a’ is not a valid number, it returns NaN (not a number)

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        ‘a’ + +

        This part is the same as writing 'a'++ and that returns “NaN” (short for “not a number”) since you can’t increment a character, but this return type is a string, so the interpreter just concatenates it with the other letters: baNaNa. Then that string is converted to lower case to give the final result, “banana”.

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          The space makes that two different tokens, in reality what happens is ‘a’ + (+‘a’) that resolves to ‘a’ + ‘NaN’.

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            Yep, I believe you’re right

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          Ironically 'a'++ works in C/C++ because 'a' is char where in JS ‘a’ is string.

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