Sherclod Holmes @wallhackio@cat.family

@aescling @vaporeon_ in C++ land you avoid this sort of thing with namespaces

In my work's C++ code everything, and I mean everything, was namespaced like nebula::ffph::doAlgo so that there were no namespace collisions

@vaporeon_ I am not a C expert by any means, but my exploration of C++ has taught me a few things. Header files in C++ have proven to be a headache in a lot of situations, and these are more or less fully inherited from C

Since you pull in everything present in a header file you pollute namespaces which can be a nightmare to manage in large projects

Plus header files induce some code repetition

For reasons I don't understand header files also make it difficult for C++ programs to compile quickly

@aescling its literally the first thing you hear from the original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-g02aE1oh0

@vaporeon_ this doesn't count but still, lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPKIo1xx3MU

@lapis a mystery, you say... 🔍 ​

if you recognize the midori sample in the fourth song then you have super adhd

this album is really good if you, like, have undiagnosed adhd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdzRR0Zenpc

@Lucy drinking oolong from the same tea leaves five times my beloved

@aescling @vaporeon_ sure Brandon Eich, why not do that

@sudo_EatPant the reason we say nullish is because the language has two "null-like" values (undefined and null) where most languages only have one. So we say "nullish" to refer to either of these two values

@vaporeon_ might not be an issue if you have runtime type checking before the query, or if your JavaScript is compiled/transpiled from TypeScript, or if you have extensive confidence in your software testing

@vaporeon_ there are non-nullish values that are coerced to false. or x could be false itself. That means the following values would also be treated as nullish:

false
""
0
-0
0n
NaN

@aescling at work we had that but for a function called "exists"

@aescling is that a function you define elsewhere in your program?

@vaporeon_ oops. i made a new poll

Your preferred style(s) for checking for nullish in JavaScript:

@coriander still mad about this.

@The_T @monorail @aescling thanks for the thoughtful response, much appreciated!