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fenomas on Sept 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: JavaScript: The Curious Case of null >= 0

This sounds like throwing an error with extra steps.

Isn't what you're describing here basically equivalent to saying JS should throw on invalid comparisons, with

    try {if (x) then A else B} catch C

rewritten as

    if (x) then A else B otherwise C

?

lisper on Sept 10, 2017 [–]

Yes, except that the program would continue rather than halt if you left out the OTHERWISE clause. This seemed to me to be more in keeping with the philosophy of the rest of the language.

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