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by Dewie 4445 days ago
> Here, the antagonist says that b can't be 1 and 2 at the same time, which would be self-evident in mathematical algebra, but turns out to be quite irrelevant to Javascript and to programming paradigms generally (since two statements will never be checked simultaneously).

This isn't really a problem if b is enforced to be immutable.