Oh yes. In Javascript, the operands are only coerced if one of the operands is a number. So when comparing two strings (regardless of whether the strings can be

Oh yes. In Javascript, the operands are only coerced if one of the operands is a number. So when comparing two strings (regardless of whether the strings can be interpreted as a number), you always get a regular string compare. "12" == "12.0" -> false, basic string compare Furthermore, if one operand happens to be a number, and the other operand has illegal characters to be interpreted as a number, the two operands aren't equal. 0 == "foo" -> false, "foo" is not a valid number 12 == "12 monkeys" -> false, "12 monkeys" is not a valid number 12 == "12.0" -> true, "12.0" is a valid number, and compares equal to 12. In short, in Javascript the == operator actually makes sense. In PHP, every single one of above examples would evaluate to true.