The answer
No. Defaults apply only when the argument is undefined or omitted. Passing null, 0, or empty string does not trigger the default, because those are real values.
JavaScript Weakly Typed Language and undefined Behavior
Do default parameters apply when the argument is null in JavaScript?
More FAQs in JavaScript Weakly Typed Language and undefined Behavior
NaN. undefined coerces to NaN in numeric contexts, and any arithmetic with NaN produces NaN, which propagates silently through calculations.
'Value: undefined'. The + operator favors string concatenation, so undefined is coerced to the string 'undefined' and concatenated.
Yes. undefined == null is true, a special case in the spec. But undefined === null is false. They are only loosely equal to each other, not to any other value.
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