It's hilarious, because: "1" + 1 === "11" "1" - 1 === 0 "1" + 1n === "11" "1" - ... | Hacker News

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gcbirzan on Nov 9, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: BigInt: Arbitrary precision integers in JavaScript

It's hilarious, because:

  "1" + 1 === "11"
  "1" - 1 === 0
  "1" + 1n === "11"
  "1" - 1n: Exception

maxxxxx on Nov 9, 2018 [–]

Our testers write a lot scripts in PHP and I have spent countless hours debugging stuff like this. A special kind of fun is to figure out what expressions count as TRUE or FALSE. JavaScript seems to have the same, slightly different, problems.

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