Hmm,

boolean with a stop function, looks wierd

Did you know a bool can also suck?

bool programmingStyle = false;
if ( programmingStyle. sucks( ) )
{
learnonothersitesbutthisonebecausemyfunctionnamingsalsosucks( );
}

That's actually a real and useful thing. So let's say you have something complicated to check, instead of having like a 3 line if you could make a function which returns true or false.

@Dacexi I don't quite understand what you are saying. Do you mean a function which returns bool? This rant is about a method on the bool type: in this case true.stop()

@danielspaniol oh yeah okay. That's a bit strange 🤔

You assume sad() is a stateless function.

I guess sad() return an object implementing a toBoolean method.

If it wasn't a strict comparison it would work.

It's possible: https://jsfiddle.net/esn9L5sx/1/

@theCalcaholic Well, it's hacky. But sometimes I did it too...

@gofrendi It is :D Wouldn't write something like it in production code.

@gofrendi Apparently it's what you learn at that course. ^^

That code doesn't make any sense... Sad sounds like a property rather than a function. === true is also useless code inflation.

Should be

if(sad) {
sad.stop();
beAwesome();
}

... and even then... ".stop()" on a boolean?? But I guess that's what this rant was initially about.

@arminlinzbauer Correct. :)
But it's possible, since Javascript is not a strongly typed language (compare my jsfiddle from another comment).

Of course that you CAN do something doesn't necessarily imply that you SHOULD.

@arminlinzbauer On an additional note:

In Javascript '=== true' is NOT redundant.

=== checks for type and value equality. If you don't compare a variable to true with '===' it might still be 'truthy' (evaluate to true if interpreted as boolean). For example, the following expression will print true:

if( "false" && { } && (function() {}) && 5) {
console.log("true");
}

Please note, that I didn't test these statements - is entirely possible I made a mistake.

@theCalcaholic Verified the JS statement - it's correct.

Well, OpenClassrooms is a quite good french website to learn programming basics. And when I talk about basics, it's just an introduction. They don't go deeper than the surface of every language or technologies and back in past, they were a lot hated because they gived bad advices and bad practices.

I learned my first programming languages on this website, almost ten years ago, and that's worst than it was before :/

@theCatholic - I'm aware of that, but for something as simple as that, a 'truthy' value should be enough to justify the execution of this block imo...

Totally overriding prototype methods because fuck the next developer and his understanding of a string.

Or, uh, Boolean in this case.

Back in the day they were called "Le site du zéro" which translates to "The zero's website"

Guess they're loyal to their ideology..

@theCalcaholic Sometimes courses like that are overpriced.

The marketing is pretty good however. Like, "follow this course, and you will be the next Mark Zuckerberg"

@arminlinzbauer I'm not 'theCatholic'! D:

@theCalcaholic you were just outed friendo!

Uh, also, do you know how to unreport a comment? I done did fucked up and accidentally reported yours when I was meant to hit reply. Fml.

If you want, report this one for me! It’d make me feel better about the situation.

@theCalcaholic so sorry :0 I've been staring on a monitor for 9 hours straight, I guess my vision got a bit blurry...

@arminlinzbauer @jamescodesthing No problem. :D

(The name thing happens to me occasionally)

That's not real JavaScript!

In 2017 real JS has to be chained and nested to the fuck!

if ( sad().isTrue === true ? true : false) {
return new Promise( (resolve, reject) => {
try {
resolve(sad().stop().beAwesome().call(this));
} catch(err) {
reject(Error(err.statusText));
}
};
}

@Noob I disagree. In 2017 we have ES17 with async/await! 😍

@theCalcaholic I wanted to add a generator there as well.
Also ES17... You live in 2026

@Noob Right. 😂
ECMAScript versions always confuse me.

ES 6 = ES 2015
ES 7 = ES 2016
and so on.

I was referring to ES 7, of course, but I guess, I messed up. :P

@theCalcaholic I understood you. Was just trolling. ;)

@Noob I know. XD

This place has the most polite, well mannered community I’ve seen anywhere on the Internet.

Quick someone call me a cunt before I cry.

Fookin cunt..

Is the "===" intentionally?

I always hated these BS pseudocode "jokes" that people write. It is almost consistently crap code anyway

@wholl0p See my earlier comment. ;)

@nahson Way more beautiful than my code example!

fun Boolean.stop() = println("Why?")