[randrews]

I just experimented a bit with Rhino ( http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/ ) and I got nothin'. I had thought it might be that it coerces the right hand side to match the left's type, but it doesn't since:

null==0 || 0==null -> false

It's weird for number/string comparisons, too. "12" is greater than "102" (lexical ordering, "2" > "0") but less than 102 (coerces "12" to number).

It seems like if one side is a number, then it coerces the other one to number as well, unless the other is null.

Which makes sense given what it was designed for, since any attribute you pull in from a DOM element will be a string, and you want to make forgetting to convert safe.