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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Understanding &&
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 16:09:13 +0100
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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.