r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Embarrassed_Death69 • 23h ago

Meme iHateThisPassiveAgressiveBehaviourRuby

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u/Key_Conversation5277 22h ago

But wtf is a "truthy" value? It doesn't make any sense nor mathematically nor programmatically

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u/ReefNixon 22h ago

What do you mean it doesn't make any sense programmatically? All 'truthy' means is that it evaluates as true in a conditional, truthy (and falsey) values are completely normal concepts in high level programming.

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u/Key_Conversation5277 22h ago

if(42) -> true

What fucking sense does this make? A number is a number, not something to be coerced to a boolean. Thankfully Java doesn't have this nonsense

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u/Unlikely-Bed-1133 22h ago

Implicit casting is a thing that makes sense both programmatically and mathematically. You just prefer strongly typed languages.