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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not strictly equivalent, since || tests for truthiness, not just null.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's fair, but it's close enough that it functions identically

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Only for the null case. For other cases it doesn't function identically, since it also treats "", 0 and undefined the same as null.