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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Why JavaScript 'seems' to get addition wrong
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 16:16:14 +0100
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AbdulFattah Popoola <abdulapopoola@gmail.com> writes:

> One of the most popular gotchas of JavaScript is its behaviour when
> adding operands. For example, the output of {} + 2 is different from 2
> + {}.

That's not an example of addition.  I think it's better to say that one
of the gochas of EcmaScript is that + means more than one thing.

> I explained why the puzzling results occur in this post:
> http://abdulapopoola.com/2015/09/30/why-javascript-seems-to-get-addition-wrong/.
>
> Please do share your feedback.

Share you explanation here, and I'll share my feedback here.

-- 
Ben.