null is null or is not an object

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1. of coz “typeof null” should return ‘null’. Unfortunately it returns ‘object’ as ECMAScript spec. Brendan Eich confirmed that it’s a mistake, but it’s too late to fix it. Let’s waiting for ECMAScript edition 6 or 7 to fix it…

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2. I dont think that’s a mistake, as it makes an easy way to return an empty ‘error’ object.
   What I dont understand is why there is upper+lowercase number, string and boolean… or why classes also return object, and you need toString() to get the real type…

   var n = 5; // typeof n == ‘number’
   var m = new Number(5); // typeof m == ‘Number’

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3. I think they said that will change that.
   

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