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Andreas Bergmaier wrote:

> Hans-Georg Michna schrieb:
>> ? true : false
>> is another way to write,
>> "I don't understand JavaScript."
>>
>> If you really have to transform something into a boolean that
>> isn't already one, just write !! in front of it, but think again
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> whether that is really needed.
> 
> I'm sure in his application he uses other values like strings. This
> console.log-thing was just to show his problem. Of course he could have
> written:
>   console.log("Why is this "+foo ? "true" : "false" + "?")

You appear to have missed the point:

  console.log("Why is this " + !!foo + "?");

> but does it matter?

If it leads to inefficient, error-prone code, then yes.


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