I'm kind of confused! Why paranthesis don't affect the priority in these statements?

true === '0' == 0 // returns true
(true === '0') == 0 // returns true again!

I'm kind of confused! Why paranthesis don't affect the priority in these statements?

true === '0' == 0 // returns true
(true === '0') == 0 // returns true again!

• javascript

9 Answers 9

because true === '0' evaluates to false, and false == 0 is true. (because false and 0 are both "non-truthy")

Remember that === compares strict equality and == tests for equality with conversion.

It's not that the priority is different, it's that both groupings evaluate to true:

true === '0' is false
false == 0 is true

'0' == 0 is true
true === true is true

You might want to review the JS truth table

Because (true === '0') is false and false == 0 is true in both cases.

In other words:

(true === '0') == 0

resolves to

false == 0

Which is true.

Because the operators === and == have the same precedence are are left-to-right associative. Both the expressions result in the same interpretation. Consider the following expressions as for why the result is what it is:

true === '0' // false
// so: true === '0' == 0    is  false == 0    and;
//     (true === '0') == 0  is  (false) == 0  is  false == 0  and;
false == 0   // true

Happy coding.

> true === '0'
  false
> false == 0
  true

(true === '0') == 0

This one evaluates to:

false == 0 // which is true

Because (true === '0') is false and false == 0 is true and in this case JavaScript is nt doing a strict type comparison if you want it to return false change second part to ===

because true === '0' return false and false == 0 return true

Even with the paranthesis, your first check will always return false and

false == 0 will always return true

The === will check if the value is exactly the same (type inculded). So since you compare a char with a boolean, the result will alway be false.

By using parenthesis, you have not changed the order of execution. It was left to right even without parenthesis. The left part true=='0' returns 0.

0 == 0 returns true, so final answer is true both the times.