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_ikke_ on April 29, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Do notation considered harmful

For me, that's similar to writing

  if(var == true) {

  }

It's more verbose than necessary, but not wrong.

iso-8859-1 on May 10, 2020 [–]

In Python and JavaScript it is also asserting the type of the thing being compared, which, I argue is better code style. It is a mess having to think about all those things being truish.

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