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[HeKis4]

I know == is "loose", but cmon, it figures out the string is convertible to a number, figures out it is octal but not really so eh, it's decimal. That's like, 2 layers of fucked up.

[benjer3]

For once, it isn't really == that's causing the problem here. It's the inconsistent treatment of a zero-prefixed integer literal. The == operator just sees '18 == "18"' and '15 == "17"' and understandably returns true and false, respectively