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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 16:09 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <87wnt2e06e.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink)
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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 &&.

-- 
Ben.

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            Re: Understanding && Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-04-17 02:01 +0100
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                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
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                Re: Understanding && Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2021-04-20 01:08 +0000
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          Re: Understanding && Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2021-04-17 17:05 +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
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