I opened issue CLJS-457 for this enhancement/bug.

As a workaround, one can test for undefined?, although that is not really the 
same and cljs-specific, but for my use case that will do.

Thanks, Frank.


On Jan 15, 2013, at 5:32 AM, David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is an unrelated issue. We could probably simulate this by creating a 
> Unbound type and initializing def'ed vars without init expressions to 
> instances of it.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Frank Siebenlist 
> <frank.siebenl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ClojureScript:cljs.user> (def a nil)
> nil
> ClojureScript:cljs.user> (def b)
> 
> ClojureScript:cljs.user> (= a b)
> true
> --------
> user=> (def a nil)
> #'user/a
> user=> (def b)
> #'user/b
> user=> (= a b)
> false
> --------
> 
> I didn't realize that the above is dark cave material ;-)
> 
> Could you elaborate a little on the desirable aspect?
> (I'm not arguing - only trying to understand as I have just been bitten by 
> this behavior)
> 
> Thanks, FrankS.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 14, 2013, at 9:25 PM, David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > This behavior is desirable. Unless you are in some dark cave of interop you 
> > shouldn't care.
> >
> > On Tuesday, January 15, 2013, Frank Siebenlist wrote:
> > ClojureScript:cljs.user> (def a nil)
> > nil
> > ClojureScript:cljs.user> (def b)
> >
> > ClojureScript:cljs.user> (undefined? a)
> > false
> > ClojureScript:cljs.user> (undefined? b)
> > true
> > ClojureScript:cljs.user> (nil? a)
> > true
> > ClojureScript:cljs.user> (nil? b)
> > true
> > ClojureScript:cljs.user> (type a)
> > nil
> > ClojureScript:cljs.user> (type b)
> > nil
> > ClojureScript:cljs.user> (goog.typeOf a)
> > "null"
> > ClojureScript:cljs.user> (goog.typeOf b)
> > "undefined"
> > ClojureScript:cljs.user> (= a b)
> > true
> >
> >
> > That doesn't feel right… does it?
> >
> > Definitely different from clojure… although it's difficult to compare 
> > without vars in cljs.
> >
> > -FrankS.
> >
> >
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