twitter/hogan.js — pull request #153 by ahume (2013-11-04 17:41:52+00:00)
Title: Ensure text of template tokens are string primitives not objects

I don't know if there's a specific reason for text fields to be handled as string objects vs primitives. In general it probably makes them more difficult to work with (see the conversions that are currently required in tests for example). Would be interested to know the reason.

There's a bug in recent Canary builds (reported to Google, possibly V8 JIT bug) which is causing an "illegal access" error when concatenating these strings without explicitly converting to a primitive first. This fixes that - but I guess there's some potentially backward breaking changes here if you were doing certain things and expecting typeof object?