Its not malicious or unheard of. Unity, a very popular game engine, overloads the == operator as well as the implicit boolean cast for their built in types. T

Its not malicious or unheard of. Unity, a very popular game engine, overloads the == operator as well as the implicit boolean cast for their built in types. They do this because their types adhere to a specific lifecycle. When an object is dead, == null is true. I'm not a fan and its not super common but it happens.