@wynd | wasteof.money 4

answered: arrays cant be checked for equality, thanks oren

~~does anyone here know why~~

[typeof "this is a string", typeof "also a string"] == ['string', 'string']

~~returns false?~~

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Reference instead of value equality

If you want to know why arrays can’t be checked for equality, it’s because two objects must be the exact same for == to return true

For example:

[] == [] // false
x = []; x == x // true

["string", "string"] == ['string', 'string'] // false
"s" == 's' // true

['s','a']==['s','a'] //false

['a']==['a'] //false

I guess arrays just cant be checked for equality

oh, good thing i found a different way to find what i was looking for

yeah I looked it up, they cant