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Bug 218091

Summary: expected '===' and instead saw '=='
Product: javascript Reporter: alaksundar
Component: EditorAssignee: Petr Pisl <ppisl>
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 7.3   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Issue Type: DEFECT Exception Reporter:

Description alaksundar 2012-09-11 04:18:19 UTC
if (j == 'n')
Comment 1 Petr Pisl 2012-09-11 07:39:01 UTC
I'm sorry, I don't understand what is the problem. Please specify more.
Comment 2 alex_torfan 2013-03-04 09:02:51 UTC
Why requires '===' instead of '==' ???
Comment 3 Petr Pisl 2013-03-05 09:23:32 UTC
Because it's JavaScript good practice. Quotation from JsLint documentation:

The == and != operators do type coercion before comparing. This is bad because it causes ' \t\r\n' == 0 to be true. This can mask type errors. JSLint cannot reliably determine if == is being used correctly, so it is best to not use == and != at all and to always use the more reliable === and !== operators instead.