Javascript: coercing to signed integer

If you have some JavaScript value in x and you want it as a 32-bit signed integer then you can use the expression:

x|0

or change x using the assignment expression:

x|=0

This leaves 32-bit signed integers untouched, and does plausible things for fractional values, very large numbers, strings that look like numbers, true and false, NaN, infinities, and any other objects. It can’t raise an exception. It’s very short.

I can’t remember what I was trying to do when I discovered this, so I haven’t got a good use case…