I wish in JavaScript that inequality operators would always return false if either side of the operator needed coercion, at least then this sort of scenario wou

I wish in JavaScript that inequality operators would always return false if either side of the operator needed coercion, at least then this sort of scenario would be predictable (and a little more JavaScripty than throwing an error). As it stands, it's bad practice to rely on this sort of edge case in your code. If you know that one of the variables can be null, always handle that case before doing the comparison.