just couple of articles from the web that discuss in detail null/undefined (results to be summarized sometime)
- http://constc.blogspot.com/2008/07/undeclared-undefined-null-in-javascript.html
- http://saladwithsteve.com/2008/02/javascript-undefined-vs-null.html
- from comments in this post by a ‘Donovan West’, function isUndefined(x) {var u; return x === u;}