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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Javascript could throw an error to alert you that the input is supposed to be a string, like most languages would do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Theoretically, Javascript is an untyped language, so there aren't supposed to really be static types. Giving type errors in this situation would be against design.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe the design is bad, then.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Lol you'll get no argument from me. It's not my favorite language.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

JavaScript has types and it does have type errors, for instance

> null.foo
Uncaught TypeError: null has no properties

Please stop spouting nonsense on issues you know nothing about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Dynamic types aren't static types my man. I think you got some learning to do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Lol like facilitate versus effectuate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Theoretically, Javascript is an untyped language…

Function only handles string arguments correctly. Wat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

But you're calling a function specifically made for passing a string to an int... 😆 There's gotta be some common sense somewhere here, guys.

Still, it's a very good point. JS should do this.

I would suspect one reason it doesn't do this is to be backwards compatible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And god fucking forbid that common sense be in the language. Who the fuck needs a language with common sense, amirite?