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But you're calling a function specifically made for passing a string to an int... ๐ 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.
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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