cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10094818
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Gender variability as declarations in JavaScript: const / let / varMeme is based on Jordan Peterson "approival / disapproval" format, him being a conservative who disapproves of gender fluidity.
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- Jordan Peterson approval image: const gender;
- Jordan Peterson angry image: let gender;
- Jordan Peterson crying image: var gender;
Joke's on you because they're all still mutable objects behind the reference.
Last one can be freely changed by anyone, the middle one still has some restraints.
varisn't global unless it's not inside a function.varis just function scoped, with declaration auto hoisted to the beginning of the function.letis a little more intuitive since you can't refer to it before it's been declared and has block scope rather than function scope.Reassignment isn't the same as mutation. But mutation depends on the type of value. If gender was a string like "female" it wouldn't be mutable cuz strings are immutable in JS.