• Decq@lemmy.world
    81·
    7 hours ago

    To be fair in a dynamic typed language with dumb string to int coercions, I kinda get why such a would library exists. So it’s more a symptom of terrible language design than modern dependency hell.

    • bobo@lemmy.ml
      7·
      6 hours ago

      in a dynamic typed language with dumb string to int coercions, I kinda get why such a would library exists.

      If string return nan, else % 2

      So it’s more a symptom of terrible language design than modern dependency hell.

      Dependency chain: is-even depends on is-odd which depends on is-number

      • Decq@lemmy.world
        21·
        4 hours ago

        If string return nan, else % 2

        So now you return a number type if it’s a string and a boolean if it’s an integer. How does that make sense?

        The is-even lib exists to sanitize input by throwing an exception which imho is better.

        Edit: having looked at the code better. Apparently it still allows string coercion (boo). It only checks for non integer numbers.