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		dragonwriter on Nov 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Interesting Bugs Caught by ESLint's no-constant-bi... > Ideally this lint would ignore if (false) and if (true), even though these are still constant binary expressions, I don't think they are: binary expressions affected are expressions constructed with binary logical or comparison operator (==, ===, &&, \|\|, ??). true and false each aren't binary expressions, they are simple constant values, and the lint isn't for constant conditionals. (The rule for that is no-constant-condition.)

captbaritone on Nov 9, 2023 [–]

Exactly right. And no-constant-expression is configurable to allow trivial constant expressions for exactly the reason the parent commenter raised.

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