cm0002@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 2 days agoWhich of these javascript expressions is false?lemmy.mlimagemessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up1488arrow-down110
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minus-squaresorter_plainview@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up61·2 days ago Spoiler What is the rationale for all comparisons returning false for IEEE754 NaN values?
minus-squareskisnow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·2 days agoThat one wasn’t the one I had issues with, since the concept is essentially the same across all languages. We say it’s false because we can’t conclusively say that it’s true. Same as the reason why null != null in SQL.
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoIt also makes a lot of conditional expressions less complicated because comparisons of all kind against NaN return false.
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What is the rationale for all comparisons returning false for IEEE754 NaN values?
That one wasn’t the one I had issues with, since the concept is essentially the same across all languages. We say it’s false because we can’t conclusively say that it’s true. Same as the reason why null != null in SQL.
It also makes a lot of conditional expressions less complicated because comparisons of all kind against NaN return false.