On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Andrea Giammarchi < [email protected]> wrote:
> As mentioned in the gist, and FWIW, -1 here. > > `/^true$/i.test(str)` works since ever for the specified use case > > `Boolean.parseBoolean(1)` that returns `false` is a footgun. > > Either we talk about a better definition of truthy-like values, or having > a public spec about just string type and `true` as value looks like the > solution for 1% of use cases that's also already covered by `JSON.parse` > >> >> Still, semantics matter :) With a `JSON.parse` you may parse any JSON value, and then will have to do extra checks. RegExp test is also less semantic. Initially in the thread I considered truthy/falsey values, but then reduced to strings only, and took Java's implementation, but this can be discussed. The need for a semantic method from `Boolean` still exists, instead of using ad-hoc technics like JSON or regexp, which are just implementation details for the semantic method. Dmitry
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