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Which of these javascript expressions is false? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

typeof null === "object" was actually a bug in the early implementations, and they decided to keep it in the spec: https://2ality.com/2013/10/typeof-null.html

(see the comment from Brendan Eich)

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 14 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Tony Hoare: "Introducing NULL was a billion-dollar mistake"

Brendan Eich: "Hold my undefined"

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago

We had one null, yes. But what about second null?