Constellation Scorpius

You know, this all came about because of rushing in early May 1995, which led to a leak of type tag representation shared by null and object types. But null means “no object”, so it didn’t raise hackles until it was too late to fix in Netscape 2, and after that we were loath to “fix” it and “break the web”.

That argument only applies more in degree of web population now.

We have other fish to fry. This one was has been swallowed already. Let’s not change typeof null for ES4 and work on more vital issues.

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