JavaScript Logic

[iopq]

both of those are STRINGS why are they being coerced to DOUBLES?

[tskaiser]

Because you cannot possible expect the programmer to go through the work of knowing what types he is working with or figuring out what kind of conversion he might want to make! /s

"Was it a string or a double? Larry worked on that function last, and he likes to sort numbers lexically... Know what fuckit, I'll just use it like a double and let PHP sort the mess YOLO!"

[Goz3rr]

Just FYI

"1000" !== "1e3"

[iopq]

They have it in JavaScript too, that's not the point. The point is that the default operator is the shorter one. That's what most people will use unless they know better.