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Inm looking at you Typescript dev (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Most languages I know of that allow this at all will coerce the "1" to an integer and give x = 2. They get away with this because they define the "+" operator as taking numbers only as arguments, so if you hand them x = x + "cheese" they'll error out.