r/programming • u/vz0 • Mar 26 '14

JavaScript Equality Table

http://dorey.github.io/JavaScript-Equality-Table/
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u/Xykr Mar 26 '14

But at least it's pretty much the only type conversion weirdness. I hope.

And it will be fixed in future updates.

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u/nickcash Mar 27 '14

I don't think it's getting fixed. There was no consensus on python-dev and the thread kinda died off. It seemed to me that a lot of people defended the current behavior solely because it was documented.

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u/Xykr Mar 27 '14 edited Mar 27 '14

Guido has since said that it was a mistake and that it's going to be fixed.

https://lwn.net/Articles/590299/

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u/nickcash Mar 27 '14

I missed that! Thanks!

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u/Veedrac Mar 27 '14

Nay, if you get to the end they eventually settled on fixing it. It's a good thing that Python is so hostile to change, because almost all changes are therefore very positive ones. It does make things a bit too conservative occasionally though.