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submitted 9 months ago by JPDev@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The other comments explains it in pretty good detail, but when I was learning my teacher explained it sort of like a mnemonic.

1 + 1 = 2 is read "one plus one equals two"

1 + 1 == 2 is read "one plus one is equal to two"

1 + 1 === 2 is read "one plus one is really equal to two"

And you hit the nail on the head, is that === is type explicit while == is implicit.

[–] bobbykjack@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'd use something like:

= becomes

== equals

=== is identical to

It's funny how everyone thinks "equals" in this context should be "identical to" when, in normal language, it doesn't really mean that at all!