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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)

NaN is specifically not a number.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 years ago (3 children) 
> typeof NaN
"number"
[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Conclusion: Javascript is Neutral Evil

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Always has been

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Now that's a characterization I can get behind!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That is a valid point. Also, I learned something about JavaScript. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well, it's something like the difference between { x: null } and { }.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's why it's in the Evil row

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I feel like it belongs more in the chaotic row

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, at least it is used in place of a number. But what about QED.?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

NaN makes for a better Chaotic Evil, QED could just as well be Neutral Evil.

However QED always stands in the bottom right corner, I guess that makes the author of this chart lawfully evil

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Unless it is Quantum Electro Dynamics.