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Bug 13376 - "Return whether [...]" doesn't cast to a boolean
Summary: "Return whether [...]" doesn't cast to a boolean
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebAppsWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: DOM (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anne
QA Contact: public-webapps-bugzilla
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Reported: 2011-07-26 23:20 UTC by Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
Modified: 2011-07-31 08:57 UTC (History)
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Description Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-07-26 23:20:34 UTC 
DOMTokenList:

  4. Return whether token is a case-sensitive match for [...]

"It is" and "It is not" are not boolean values, so this doesn't define the return value.

This is why the HTML spec said "return true if ... otherwise return false".