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wjmao88 on March 8, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: HTML comments work in JavaScript too

<! is less than or not equal right? which is a strict subset of !=, since anything < by definition is !=

dragonwriter on March 8, 2022 [–]

> <! is less than or not equal right?

No, it is less-than-not, not less-than-or-not-equal-to.

That is <!x is the same as < (!x); if x is true-ish, it is “< false” and if x is false-ish it is “< true”.

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