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0 vs null vs undefined - explained with toilet paper (i.stack.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by jeff@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on the programming language. In JavaScript, it literally means that like the key or variable does not actually exist. Whereas like in C/C++, writing random bytes to random memory addresses would result in "undefined behaviour" which means basically anything could happen.

[–] crystal@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In Javascript you can do let a = undefined, defining the variale a as undefined.

A significant difference to defining it as null is that typeof null == "object", while typeof undefined == "undefined".