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viraptor on Jan 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stack Overflow answer explaining JS in the "Wat" t...

> after all, a 1 is a 1 even if it happens to be a string

Is it? In JS: "1" + 1 == "11"; 1 + 1 == 2

tikhonj on Jan 29, 2012 [–]

The problem there isn't with coercion, it's with + being both addition and concatenation, as I mentioned at the end of my comment.

If you use any other operator (any reasonable operator), it works: "1" - 1 === 0, "1" - "1" === 0 and 1 - 1 === 0.

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