Re: [jsr-314-open] Coercion in the EL

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Martin Marinschek <mmarinschek(a)apache.org <mailto:mmarinschek@apache.org>> wrote: Hi Dan, fact is that the spec says this: Coerce A to Boolean * If A is null or "", return false * Otherwise, if A is a Boolean, return A * Otherwise, if A is a String, and Boolean.valueOf(A) does not throw an exception, return it so it DOES touch the nulls. I don't know either who came up with this. Right, I agree with you. I'm saying that this is silly behavior. Either it should leave null alone or choose to convert it only *if* the expected-type is a primitive (in this case a primitive boolean).

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