I made a new JavaScript operator!

Can you figure out how?

let x = 10;
// The new arrow operator – goes from one number to another
while (x --> 0) { // x goes to 0
  console.log(x)
}

let x = 10; // The new arrow operator – goes from one number to another while (x --> 0) { // x goes to 0 console.log(x) }

Comments

[t7yang]

[Siddharth]

LOL man that was nice

[acelot]

Simple as one two three:

let x = 10;

while (x-- > 0) {
  console.log(x)
}

[Siddharth]

😀 you got it!

[HS]

I like those kind of things (the famous destroy all software videos and such). In some languages you might have range(0,10, 0.5) where last value is the step size so it give more flexibility. In others you only have things like 1..10 or 1 to 10.

Just for the laughs you might consider having step size in form of while(x -(0.5)-> 10) and when someone asks why would operator be -()-> you can respond with "because I can" or "why not" XD.

[Mathew Kurian]

This is clever. Nice!

[Tracy Gilmore]

Keeping it simple - like it.

[Cody Tilkins]

Pretty amusing. The lexer for javascript is weak in terms of enforcing code to be well written.

[Imagineee]

how did you implement this in runkit? and I really like the idea, and you can save some typing

[Siddharth]

You mean embed? You can use liquid tags to do a lot of stuff here. That includes embedding runkit like so:

{% runkit
// hidden setup JavaScript code goes in this preamble area
const hiddenVar = 42
%}
// visible, reader-editable JavaScript code goes here
console.log(hiddenVar)
{% endrunkit %}