I listened recently to a Channel 9 recording of Anders Hejlsberg, Brian Beckman, and Erik Meijer that caught me by surprise. Brian praised VB's dynamic features, yet said he used C# because it had ...
The number of arguments a function takes. From words like unary, binary, ternary, etc. A closure is a scope which captures local variables of a function for access even after the execution has moved ...
In conditions (if, while, ternary), JavaScript coerces values to booleans. Knowing the 5 falsy values prevents logical errors — especially with 0 and empty strings, which are valid values but evaluate ...