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Re: Understanding &&

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Understanding &&
Date 2021-04-16 21:09 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> writes:

> On 2021-04-16, Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
>> Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> writes:
>>> You most often see this sort of thing in JavaScript that was
>>> automatically generated by a compiler (either because the original
>>> source was in something else like TypeScript or a more modern version
>>> of JavaScript or because the author wanted to compress/minify the
>>> script), but human beings are also quite capable of writing hard-to-read
>>> code like this.
>>
>> Is that specifically when the right-hand operand is an assignment
>> expression?  I don't find that hard to read but then I'm used to
>> assignment being and expression so it seems like a natural extension of
>> the more frequently seen uses of &&.
>
> I mean where it's an expression being abused as a control flow
> mechanism.

If readability is not the problem I'm not sure what constitutes abuse.
Is it just a rule of yours to keep these two things entirely separate?
Maybe some uses are acceptable and don't constitute abuse?  Is any
reliance on short-circuit evaluation in an expression an abuse?  If so,
does that extend to '??' and '?.'?  (That's not easy to make clear in
typing but I hope you know what I mean.)

I only suggested that assignment might be where it crosses the line for
you because I think that's where the line is for a lot of people, but it
sounds like go further than that.

I go the other way.  Statements (most of them at least) are just wasted
expression opportunities.  It's less noticeable in ECMAScript, than in
many other languages, but it still bugs me every now and then.

-- 
Ben.

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  Re: Understanding && Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-16 11:00 +0100
  Re: Understanding && Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2021-04-16 11:17 +0000
    Re: Understanding && Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-16 16:09 +0100
      Re: Understanding && Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2021-04-16 15:26 +0000
        Re: Understanding && Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-16 21:09 +0100
          Re: Understanding && Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2021-04-16 21:06 +0000
            Re: Understanding && Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-17 02:01 +0100
              Re: Understanding && The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-17 08:33 +0100
              Re: Understanding && John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2021-04-17 12:06 +0100
                Re: Understanding && The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-17 14:13 +0100
                Re: Understanding && Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-17 15:50 +0100
              Re: Understanding && Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2021-04-17 15:21 +0000
                Re: Understanding && Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-17 23:46 +0100
                Re: Understanding && Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2021-04-17 23:46 +0000
                Re: Understanding && Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-18 23:59 +0100
                Re: Understanding && Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2021-04-19 13:56 +0000
                Re: Understanding && Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-19 23:08 +0100
                Re: Understanding && Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2021-04-19 22:52 +0000
                Re: Understanding && Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-20 01:23 +0100
                Re: Understanding && Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2021-04-20 01:08 +0000
              Re: Understanding && Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2021-04-18 00:49 +0200
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                Re: Understanding && Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2021-04-19 21:58 +0200
            Re: Understanding && John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2021-04-18 18:20 +0100
          Re: Understanding && Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2021-04-18 00:40 +0200
            Re: Understanding && Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-18 00:14 +0100
              Re: Understanding && Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2021-04-18 00:01 +0000
                Re: Understanding && Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-18 17:44 +0100
                Re: Understanding && Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2021-04-18 17:51 +0000
              Re: Understanding && Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2021-04-19 13:41 +0200
                Re: Understanding && John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2021-04-19 15:02 +0100
                Re: Understanding && The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-20 17:40 +0100
                Re: Understanding && John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2021-04-20 18:19 +0100
                Re: Understanding && The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-21 10:11 +0100
                Re: Understanding && John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2021-04-21 19:46 +0100
                Re: Understanding && The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-22 13:48 +0100
                Re: Understanding && Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-19 21:28 +0100
                Re: Understanding && Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2021-04-19 21:56 +0000
                Re: Understanding && Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-19 23:13 +0100

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