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vor_ on March 10, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lua: Good, bad, and ugly parts

It's also not true:

  > if 0 then print "true" end
  true
  > 0 == true
 => false

I know why this is the case. But it's a logical inconsistency for users of the language.

ufo on March 10, 2013 [–]

Stop trolling please. You are advocating for `==` doing type coercion of arguments and that is almost always a misfeature in any language that has that (and the fix usually involves adding an ugly `===` operator after the fact)

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