Re: Testing for not true vs true

[TheDoc]

@fooman, that’s right, it’s a double test.

Let’s say `$somevar = false`. If you do:

if( $somevar === false )

…what you’re really writing is

if( false === false )

So you can just do

if( !$somevar )

You’ll see this a lot in JS where people are checking something:

Another reason you’ll want to use `!` is because it checks for more than just `false`. You may be looking through an array looking for a value and it could return:

• null
• undefined
• empty string

None of those things === false, so you wouldn’t be able to catch them. If you used `!$somevar` then you are golden!