• Decq@lemmy.world
      91·
      3 days ago

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

      • bobo@lemmy.ml
        8·
        3 days 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·
          3 days 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.