Meme transcription:
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…”
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2024
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It's the API's job to validate it either way. As it does that job, it may as well parse the string as an integer.
Or even funnier: It gets parsed in octal, which does yield a valid zip code. Good luck finding that.
Who tf decided that a 0 prefix means base 8 in the first place? If a time machine was invented somehow I'm going to cap that man, after the guy that created JavaScript.
Should be like
0o777to mimic hex0xFF