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minus-squarejjjalljs@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoJavascript could throw an error to alert you that the input is supposed to be a string, like most languages would do.
minus-squareheavy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoTheoretically, 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.
minus-squarebleistift2@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoJavaScript 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.
minus-squareheavy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 month agoDynamic types aren’t static types my man. I think you got some learning to do.
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 month agoBut 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.
Javascript could throw an error to alert you that the input is supposed to be a string, like most languages would do.
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.
Maybe the design is bad, then.
JavaScript has types and it does have type errors, for instance
> null.foo Uncaught TypeError: null has no propertiesPlease stop spouting nonsense on issues you know nothing about.
Dynamic types aren’t static types my man. I think you got some learning to do.
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.