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Surely "1337" is the same as 1337, right? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 4 months ago by bleistift2@sopuli.xyz to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Panel 1: Bilbo Baggins ponders, “After all… why should I care about the difference between int and String?

Panel 2: Bilbo Baggins is revealed to be an API developer. He continues, “JSON is always String, anyways…”

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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oof.

I guess this is one of the reasons that some linters now scream if you don't provide base when parsing numbers. But then again good luck finding it if it happens internally. Still, I feel like a ZIP should be treated as a string even if it looks like a number.

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep. Much like we don't treat phone numbers like a number. The rule of thumb is that if you don't do any arithmetic with it, it is not a "number" but numeric.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well, we don't, but every electonic tables software out in the wild on the other hand…

Yes, I know that you can force it to become text by prepending ' to the phone, choose an appropriate format for the cells, etc, etc

The point is that this often requires meddling after the phone gets displayed as something like 3e10