I was reading the “Types and Grammar” section of the You Don’t Know JS book and I am having a hard time understanding this.
Why is an empty array equal to false?
console.log(false == []); // trueWhy is an empty array equal to false?
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When you do [] == false, behind the scenes the Array.prototype.toString method is called with that empty array as its this context, which returns the empty string "" and the empty string is a falsy value in JavaScript.
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