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99% of the time I see usage of Array.prototype.some and Array.prototype.reduce, it would have been much more readable with a manual loop.
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This is the example that prompted the tweet. #1 is way more readable to me, do others agree? All the usage I've seen has been similar in readability to this.pic.twitter.com/OVEfJCHQyI
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Since everyone seems to have a lot of free time to argue with me on the 4th of July. I also heavily dislike the use of unary ! for boolean negation. eg. !true. I've started writing `=== false`.
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While we’re here I’ll throw in something even more inflammatory. I like this because it lets me “name” the return value and I don’t need to look back at the function name to remember what true or false means. *ducks*pic.twitter.com/Ue4rEDSwJS
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This is actually the exact pattern I use when I don't have the loop in it's own function.
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Also, can someone explain to my why #2 is more functional than #1 besides the fact it literally uses more functions.
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Relax, it's just a functional programming style. You'll understand it. For me, #2 is more readable and compact.
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Buddy, this tweet is extremely condescending.
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I find #2 more readable tbph. It describes meaning in english. It would be clearer if there was a none() method on arrays, but even as is I can immediately tell #2 is looking for the existence of an item that meets some requirements. It's really hard for me to parse that in #1.
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I think after looking at imperative loops for years and years, the brain just adapts to quickly pattern match imperative constructs/early return into the equivalent meaning that is explicit in #2. There's definitely a lot more noise in #1 but I think you just get used to it.
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#2 is more readable if you are used to functional programming in JS. In fact I'd drop the 'function' and 'return' keywords entirely and just use arrow functions.
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Strong disagree, but I think the fact that `some` is a poor name has a lot to do with the difference of opinion. Most langs call it any which helps a lot imo
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