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		wes-k on Nov 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Interesting Bugs Caught by ESLint's no-constant-bi... Your code executes and is not useless. > The rule checks for comparisons (==, !==, etc) where the outcome cannot vary at runtime, and logical expressions (&&, ??, \|\|) which will either always or never short-circuit. If you write if(baz == 6) then the if clause is useless and probably a bug.

benj111 on Nov 11, 2023 [–]

A general rule was extracted that 'useless' code is buggy code

I'd expect the compiler to optimise out

If(somedebugflag)

Not tell me off for writing buggy code.

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