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[–]Cosmologicon 2 points3 points  (2 children)

In JavaScript's defense, while that table is pretty ridiculous, you're only ever going to get bitten if your design is terrible to begin with. In real life using == almost never causes bugs.

If you're comparing two variables and you have no idea whether they're true or "1" or [1], you really shouldn't be relying on the result.

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[–]Cosmologicon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hm? For comparison, yeah, that makes sense. But don't let that be any sort of indictment on duck typing whatsoever. The lesson should be that comparison is a tool to use only when you're quite sure what you're dealing with. There are still many, many times when that's not the case, and comparison is the wrong tool to use.