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Javascript lets you do it if you use the equality (==) instead of the identity (===).. i think.

Javascript lets you do anything wrong if you use == and not === though, I'm pretty sure the machine apocalypse is going to happen because someone types == instead of === at this point.

At least if the Terminators are running JavaScript they'll be pretty easy to thwart.

Blackhat conference talk we might see in the future: "How I achieved remote code execution on the T-1000 and singlehandedly averted the extinction of the human race"

Nope. Not even JavaScript screws this one up. You've got to be doing something stupid with strings to get tripped up by "Null".

Imagine a protocol that uses xml.... there's a few out. There are no quotes so null as a string will look exactly the same as A NULL value.

But that's just the tip of the iceberg that xml is a amateurish protocol language. I'm so glad that it's finally dying.

Unfortunately it's replaced by something even more messed up

Given that the entire protocol of the web (html and http) is string-based, that's not very unlikely.

Just tested (in the node CLI console) and that doesn't seem to be the case.

Edit: It's true in PHP though. :-/

>Edit: It's true in PHP though. :-/

Can you post exactly what you did in PHP that shows "NULL" is equal to NULL? There's quite a few approaches like ==, ===, and is_null(). I can't get any to think "NULL" is NULL, though I imagine I'm missing something.

null == undefined in js.

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