I don't know whether this belongs here, but here goes. Are arrays in Javascript the same as lists in Scratch? I know there's gotta be multiple people on here that do Java too. I'm only a **beginner** though. Thanks!

This should probably go in Advanced Topics.
Anyway they are a similar concept, but they are significantly more complicated in JavaScript.

johnpocahontas wrote:

I don't know whether this belongs here, but here goes. Are arrays in Javascript the same as lists in Scratch? I know there's gotta be multiple people on here that do Java too. I'm only a **beginner** though. Thanks!

Just a note

Jave ~= JavaScript

(meaning Java isn't JavaScript)

JavaScript is for the internet, is interpreted and is NOT Java.

Java is ‘compiled’ in the act of turning a .JAVA into a .CLASS

jvvg wrote:

This should probably go in Advanced Topics.
Anyway they are a similar concept, but they are significantly more complicated in JavaScript.

Thanks! I'll try to find out more about these.

DigiTechs wrote:

johnpocahontas wrote:

I don't know whether this belongs here, but here goes. Are arrays in Javascript the same as lists in Scratch? I know there's gotta be multiple people on here that do Java too. I'm only a **beginner** though. Thanks!

Just a note

Jave ~= JavaScript

(meaning Java isn't JavaScript)

JavaScript is for the internet, is interpreted and is NOT Java.

Java is ‘compiled’ in the act of turning a .JAVA into a .CLASS

Thank you for that clarification. Now I know to use JavaScript all the time!

DigiTechs wrote:

Jave ~= JavaScript

Don't you mean Java != JavaScript?

davidkt wrote:

DigiTechs wrote:

Jave ~= JavaScript

Don't you mean Java != JavaScript?

That's PHP.

mythbusteranimator wrote:

davidkt wrote:

DigiTechs wrote:

Jave ~= JavaScript

Don't you mean Java != JavaScript?

That's PHP.

it's a lot of languages (javascript included)

zubblewu wrote:

mythbusteranimator wrote:

davidkt wrote:

DigiTechs wrote:

Jave ~= JavaScript

Don't you mean Java != JavaScript?

That's PHP.

it's a lot of languages (javascript included)

I think you mean Java !== Javascript

jji7skyline wrote:

zubblewu wrote:

mythbusteranimator wrote:

davidkt wrote:

DigiTechs wrote:

Jave ~= JavaScript

Don't you mean Java != JavaScript?

That's PHP.

it's a lot of languages (javascript included)

I think you mean Java !== Javascript

are we talking java or javascript here?

jji7skyline wrote:

zubblewu wrote:

mythbusteranimator wrote:

davidkt wrote:

DigiTechs wrote:

Jave ~= JavaScript

Don't you mean Java != JavaScript?

That's PHP.

it's a lot of languages (javascript included)

I think you mean Java !== Javascript

I'm pretty sure !== is a very special operator to test non-exactness (where you would check to see if 0 and false are the same thing in PHP).
In this case we want a simple != for C-based languages and <> for BASIC, both indicating inequality.

The ~= operator isn't always a part of every language, but in general it tests for similarity.

LS97 wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

zubblewu wrote:

mythbusteranimator wrote:

davidkt wrote:

DigiTechs wrote:

Jave ~= JavaScript

Don't you mean Java != JavaScript?

That's PHP.

it's a lot of languages (javascript included)

I think you mean Java !== Javascript

I'm pretty sure !== is a very special operator to test non-exactness (where you would check to see if 0 and false are the same thing in PHP).
In this case we want a simple != for C-based languages and <> for BASIC, both indicating inequality.

The ~= operator isn't always a part of every language, but in general it tests for similarity.

The ~= operator in Lua means ‘not equal to’, which is equal to:

if not value == value then

LS97 wrote:

I'm pretty sure !== is a very special operator to test non-exactness (where you would check to see if 0 and false are the same thing in PHP).

Yes, that is the case, but you'd rather use it more often than not because, for one, it is faster because it does not type cast and secondly, reduces error because you aren't getting tripped up by simple cases such as 0 == ''.

Gaaahhhh! I had no idea my thread would become a center for heated programming debate! Heh heh heh.

zubblewu wrote:

mythbusteranimator wrote:

davidkt wrote:

DigiTechs wrote:

Jave ~= JavaScript

Don't you mean Java != JavaScript?

That's PHP.

it's a lot of languages (javascript included)

And java included

!== is in JavaScript and a few other languages (but not java) which is basically a stricter version of !=, it tests weather two things have different value and type. For example, 1 != 1.0 is false because they have the same value even though they are different types, whereas 1 !== 1.0 is true. != is the opposite of == but !== us the opposite of ===.

…1 !== 1.0 is false… The ‘.0’ does nothing in JavaScript because everything is already a float internally.

Actually = is for assigning values, == is for testing equality. In PHP and JS at least.

johnpocahontas wrote:

Gaaahhhh! I had no idea my thread would become a center for heated programming debate! Heh heh heh.

Welcome to the ATs?

jji7skyline wrote:

Actually = is for assigning values, == is for testing equality. In PHP and JS at least.

Same here in Lua.

And ~= is for checking inequality.

joefarebrother wrote:

zubblewu wrote:

mythbusteranimator wrote:

davidkt wrote:

DigiTechs wrote:

Jave ~= JavaScript

Don't you mean Java != JavaScript?

That's PHP.

it's a lot of languages (javascript included)

And java included

!== is in JavaScript and a few other languages (but not java) which is basically a stricter version of !=, it tests weather two things have different value and type. For example, 1 != 1.0 is false because they have the same value even though they are different types, whereas 1 !== 1.0 is true. != is the opposite of == but !== us the opposite of ===.

Okay guys.

!= is in: Python, Java, JavaScript, C++, PHP, Perl, Ruby, skip a few, C, C#, Actionscript… Almost every language there is. I've never seen !== or ~= or any of your other ones.