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[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not strictly equivalent, since || tests for truthiness, not just null.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

That's fair, but it's close enough that it functions identically

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Only for the null case. For other cases it doesn't function identically, since it also treats "", 0 and undefined the same as null.

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