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Bug 427579

Summary: [eslint] Improve the eqeqeq rule for comparing null-ness
Product: [ECD] Orion Reporter: Michael Rennie <Michael_Rennie>
Component: JS ToolsAssignee: Michael Rennie <Michael_Rennie>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 5.0   
Target Milestone: 5.0 RC1   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Whiteboard:

Description Michael Rennie CLA 2014-02-06 11:27:23 EST 
Consider the following snippet:

var x = null;
if(x != null) {
	//do something
}

The '!=' will be flagged stating you should use '!===', but in the case of null/undefined-ness, we should allow the use of '!=': https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Sameness