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語源

From false +‎ -y, to be an antonym to truthy.

発音

• Homophone: falsie

形容詞

falsy (not comparable)

1. (programming) Evaluating to false in a Boolean context.

   Antonym: truthy

   • 2012, David Flanagan, JavaScript Pocket Reference, page 40:

     In JavaScript, any expression or statement that expects a boolean value will work with a truthy or falsy value, so the fact that && does not always evaluate to true or false does not cause practical problems.

   • 2014, Basarat Syed, Beginning Node.js, →ISBN, page 33:

     However, in the second case, both '0' and the empty string ('') are falsy (in other words, they behave like false) and are therefore equal with respect to ==.

   • 2016, Kenny Ballou, Learning Elixir, →ISBN, page 92:

     If the first operand (which comes before the question mark--doIt, in this example) is truthy, the expression evaluates to the second operand (between the question mark and colon), and if it's falsy, it evaluates to the third operand (after the colon).

アナグラム

• flays