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[–] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 47 points 19 hours ago (3 children)
[–] MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 3 points 58 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 3 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 45 minutes ago) (1 children)

Math.min isn’t the minimum integer; it’s the minimum of a list (and max visa versa)… the min/max of an undefined list is the same… IDK what it is, but this probably the most reasonable of the “WTFs” they could have put there i think… other languages would throw an exception or not compile (which JS definitely SHOULD do instead of this, buuuuut lots of JS has aversions to errors)

*edit: okay the curiosity was killing me: Math.min() is Infinity and Math.max() is -Infinity

[–] MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 1 points 46 minutes ago

That explains it then. It could be mislead for -inf and +inf

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 3 points 5 hours ago

yep, because it's two different instances of an object

[–] JCpac@lemmy.today 84 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Javascript is basically just C with some syntactical sugar, right? RIGHT?!?