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[–] FooBarrington 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Witchfire -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] FooBarrington 4 points 10 months 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.