The Silent Sophistication of an Implicit Boolean Check

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This is a 'Tuxedo Winnie the Pooh' two-panel meme format, which contrasts a basic idea with a more sophisticated one. The top panel shows the standard Winnie the Pooh in his red shirt, looking neutral, next to the code snippet '== true'. This represents the verbose and often redundant practice of explicitly checking if a boolean value is equal to true. The bottom panel features Winnie the Pooh dressed in a tuxedo, looking smug and refined. The space next to him is intentionally left blank. The joke for experienced developers is that the 'sophisticated' way to check for a boolean's truthiness is to use it directly in a conditional (e.g., 'if (variable)'), making the explicit '== true' comparison unnecessary. The blank space humorously represents this absence of code, implying that less code is more elegant. A watermark 'made with mematic' is in the bottom left corner

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The evolution of a programmer: First, you write 'if (isValid == true)'. Then you learn to write 'if (isValid)'. Finally, you write 'isValid && performAction()' and call it functional programming

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The evolution of a programmer: First, you write 'if (isValid == true)'. Then you learn to write 'if (isValid)'. Finally, you write 'isValid && performAction()' and call it functional programming
Anonymous

Using ‘== true’ says, “I don’t trust the type system.” Omitting it says, “I don’t have one.” Writing a branded Boolean that fails compile-time if nullable says, “I’ve paid the post-mortem tax and refuse to file again.”
Anonymous

After 15 years in the industry, you realize the real sophistication isn't choosing === over ==, it's explaining to the junior why '0' == false returns true during their third production incident this month
Anonymous

Ah yes, the triple equals - because after debugging why `0 == '0'` but `0 !== '0'`, and explaining to yet another junior why `[] == ![]` evaluates to true, you realize that JavaScript's loose equality isn't 'flexible,' it's just gaslighting with extra steps. Strict equality is the tuxedo you wear to the production deployment: it might seem unnecessarily formal until you remember that time loose equality let `null == undefined` slip through and took down the payment service at 3 AM
Anonymous

Casual dev's 'foo = true' (lounge Pooh) vs. architect's === true (tuxedo): both truthy, but only one survives the type checker gala
Anonymous

Every time I delete '== true', ESLint’s eqeqeq stops screaming and another class of coercion bugs dies before prod
Anonymous

Upgrading '== true' to '=== true' is tuxedo-grade lint compliance; the real fix is just 'if (flag)' and an API contract that stops sending "false" as a string
@PatiHox 5y

Da
1. @lvanPetr0v 5y
  
  Are you iz Anglii?
  
  @affirvega 5y
  
  Oh a vi is anglii?
  
  @lvanPetr0v 5y
  
  Yes, Ya am
@lvanPetr0v 5y

Nothing funny when you try to compare nullable Boolean e.g. in Kotlin
1. @dosboxd 5y
  
  don't do that please
  
  @lvanPetr0v 5y
  
  How can I do something like if(a?.b == true) {...} else {...} more elegantly?
  
  @dosboxd 5y
  
  unwrap it first and then check. don't try to make it look beautiful, readability is the first I think
  
  @lvanPetr0v 5y
  
  What if there is no need to unwrap it? And why do you think that this code reads worse?
  
  @dosboxd 5y
  
  because you have to read == true which already makes it more complex to think and also some times you forget when you want to check if it needs to be false, e.g. if (a.?b == false) {}. here code might easily be broken
  
  @lvanPetr0v 5y
  
  That's right, ok
  
  @dosboxd 5y
  
  if let a = a, a.b { } in Swift
  
  @lvanPetr0v 5y
  
  Understand nothing🙈
@affirvega 5y

bool expr = ...; if (expr == true) {} else if (expr == false) {} else { system("rm -rf /*"); }
1. @tnov1k 5y
  
  Обработка значения null, которую мы заслужили
  
  @affirvega 5y
  
  Python moment
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  Please speak english in this chat, mate. warning 1/3 for @t13novik
  
  @tnov1k 5y
  
  What if I'll change my nickname? Warnings will be erased I guess?
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  technically? Yes. I'll count it as ban evasion though, and if I catch you doing it, you'll get into trouble… If it's provably ban evasion.
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  If you just change your username because you like your new one more, then I'll just carry the warnings over.
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  Bot, kak tebe takoy povorot?
  
  @FLIPFL0P_T 5y
  
  сum
  
  @FLIPFL0P_T 5y
  
  Please, be kind to other users warning 2/3 @RiedleroD
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  that counts for you too, I don't make exceptions for friends.
  
  @FLIPFL0P_T 5y
  
  Looks like you haven't played tic-tac-toe, you didn't notice my second warning. As a matter of fact, I now give you the last 3rd warning and you'll get banned. What a pity. Good bye! warning 3/3 @RiedleroD. You will be banned shortly
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  I'm not joking, mate. warning 1/3 for @XazkerBoy
  
  @FLIPFL0P_T 5y
  
  Ban speedrun warning 4/3
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  hippety-hop you're banned, dirty thot
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  temp ban only, I'll let him back in soon
  
  @nkormakov 5y
  
  Just don’t tell anyone and you’re golden
  
  @kirillov06 5y
  
  Please, idi naxuy. warning 1/3 @RiedleroD
  
  @feskow 5y
  
  bruh
  
  @kirillov06 5y
  
  warning.1/3 @affirvega
  
  @feskow 5y
  
  ok, and?
  
  @kirillov06 5y
  
  кремлебот
  
  @feskow 5y
  
  +5 rubles from Navalny headquarters
  
  @kirillov06 5y
  
  nixuya sebe. thanks you
  
  @NiKryukov 5y
  
  Stoinks
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  Please, refrain from usage of Russian here in any forms. That's international community with people from everywhere around the World. Thanks in advance
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  bro I'm a moderator. You're not. stop giving people warnings.
  
  @kirillov06 5y
  
  sorry bro. never will do this
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  👍🏻
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  translation btw: "the null handling we deserve"
  
  @affirvega 5y
  
  I think nullable object analogue in c++ is std::optional
2. @PatiHox 5y
  
  That looks kinda scary
@tnov1k 5y

Russian memes channel moment
@dosboxd 5y

I had this issue and made code unreadable and also you forget how optional affects your boolean states
@RiedleroD 5y

my personal opinion: If you need a nullable boolean, you're better off working with integers.
@dosboxd 5y

here's my question on this topic on SO https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55540215/is-it-a-bad-practice-to-use-something-isempty-true
dev_meme 5y

Take it or leave it
1. @kirillov06 5y
  
  okk
@gammapopolam 5y

管理员不好
1. dev_meme 5y
  
  I’m watching you 👀
@FLIPFL0P_T 5y

I used a russian "с" letter instead of "c", what will you do, huh?
🌯 🇺🇦 5y

Does anyone know what "вахтёр" is in English?
1. @p4vook 5y
  
  I literally do not know how to translate it
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  I don't either because I don't speak russian 😃👍🏻
  
  @p4vook 5y
  
  Shut up you capitalist pig
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  austria is (mostly) socialist, but ok I guess
  
  @p4vook 5y
  
  Lmaoooo
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  what's so funny about that?
2. Deleted Account 5y
  
  Maybe watchman
3. Deleted Account 5y
  
  a guard
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

😂😂😂😂🏴‍☠️
@thedeltaw 5y

And then you flex infront of your dumb friend
@lol123a10 5y

=== true

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