Just remember : the type of the value null should be normally null, but it's not !
typeofnull// --> "object"
It's a very interesting story about a little bug insidiously introduced at the very beginning of the JS implementation (a tiny neglected of an if statement fot this type !) described here, and will never be fixed (too late !).
However, this tale highly helps me remember the case !
In Gwion, I actually implemented @null type (the type of null) as inheriting from Object, as it means absence of an object. It's true this way needs a few special rules to match, say, function pointers but it works well this way.
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Hi,
You know you can find the type of a value with the
typeofcommand :Just remember : the type of the value
nullshould be normallynull, but it's not !It's a very interesting story about a little bug insidiously introduced at the very beginning of the JS implementation (a tiny neglected of an
ifstatement fot this type !) described here, and will never be fixed (too late !).However, this tale highly helps me remember the case !
In Gwion, I actually implemented
@nulltype (the type ofnull) as inheriting fromObject, as it means absence of an object. It's true this way needs a few special rules to match, say, function pointers but it works well this way.