Allow notStrictEqual for BDD style tests (expect)

From the documentation it doesn’t seem like the following behaviour:

assert.notStrictEqual(3, '3', 'no coercion for strict equality');

is available for bdd style tests.

The only equality tests in the “expect” part of the library is this:

expect(3).to.equal('3');

but that will fail because it uses === for the comparison.

Is there any way to get the same behaviour as notStrictEqual for expect?

[shvaikalesh]

Hey @wearhere.

If you want to avoid casting string subclass to primitive on every assertion, I believe may want to write a plugin that adds a getter like .loose that sets a flag on an assertion, and overwrite equal method to respect that flag. Something like:

expect('hi').to.loose.equal(new String('hi'))

[mansona]

@nadrane why not contribute it as a PR to chai?