> No. Object.is correctly reports that these are different.
Ah yap, I've had my head in lib code for a while. I'm used to the behavior
of `_.isEqual(3, Object(3)); // => true`
but you're right the current behavior of `Object.is(3, Object(3)); //
false` so yap it makes sense that it's that way for `NaN` and `Object(NaN)`
as well.
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Mark S. Miller <erig...@google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:25 PM, John-David Dalton
> <john.david.dal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yap yap, so thoughts on `BuiltinNumberWrapper` instead of `Type(…)`? It
> > would still prevent the global `isNaN('foo')` confusion. Though
> > `Object.is(NaN, Object(NaN))` currently returns `false` too. Was this
> just
> > an oversight?
>
> No. Object.is correctly reports that these are different.
>
>
> > I know `Object(NaN)` is totally edge case but it still has the
> > brand of BultinNumberWrapper and is NaN (boxed).
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Luke Hoban <lu...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >> From: Mark S. Miller [mailto:erig...@google.com]
> >> >>
> >> >> In that case, the current spec is wrong. The purpose of introducing
> >> >> Number.isNaN is to repair the >> following bug in the global isNaN:
> >> >>
> >> >> isNaN("foo") // returns true
> >>
> >> Indeed, as Yusuke noted on the other reply, I referred to the wrong
> >> 'isNaN'. And as you note, the point of the 'Number.isNaN' variant is to
> >> avoid any coercions.
> >>
> >> That still leave's JDD's original suggestion to allow
> >> Number.isNaN(Object(NaN)) to return 'true' by checking for either
> primitive
> >> or boxed Number. It feels a little odd to introduce another kind of
> limited
> >> coercion into the language, but perhaps it is practically valuable to
> not
> >> differentiate boxed and unboxed numbers here?
> >>
> >> Luke
> >>
> >
> >
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> Cheers,
> --MarkM
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