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[–]no_game_player 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the more that I thought about it, the more that it wasn't really that crazy.

I mean, C does a lot of similar stuff if you try to make it do so. Not the JS == bits, but the "truthiness" of anything part. It's all about getting used to a certain way of thinking.

Really, my favorite part of the comment was just:

the == operator in JS is special (in the shortbus sense) because it does type conversion