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[–] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 72 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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 4 points 6 days ago

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

[–] JCpac@lemmy.today 114 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
[–] mcv@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

To the contrary, it's Lisp with a lot of syntactic sugar to make it look more like C, but underneath it's nothing like C. It's a weird hybrid.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I would say that your username doesn't check out, but being honest we're all coders, or at least script kiddie pirates, around here.