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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (22 children)

Classic people who don't know how to code wat. Passing a number in place of a string argument because they don't know what they're doing.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (11 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] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 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 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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