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It's good when languages try to help. Reprimanding someone for not doing enough work is useless.

My problem is that the language is guessing wildly, in ways too obscure to be mentioned in the documentation or known by you (a user of the language), even when both operands are strings. That means it appears to work much of the time even if you don't think you're being lazy, but might actually have a bunch of false positives you didn't expect. And that's kind of a bad thing in a programming language. Same sort of reason manually escaping everything is hard to get right: if you forget, your code still works fine under "normal" circumstances.

Now, if == did a strict comparison and there were a separate imlazyjustslopittogether operator, there wouldn't be a problem. Defaults matter.