Re:JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript
by virtualwhys on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @10:29AM
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> I wager there is type inference going on
What will the compiler infer other than a value of type string?
> to supply something that would not one way or the other convert to the types that source can consume.
Well, clearly `source` takes a string, so it will happily accept "produckname" and blow up at run time.
Short of macros I know of no other compile time mechanism that would enable "safe" strings. The usual workaround is to not use plain string values at all and wrap in a sealed type.
What will the compiler infer other than a value of type string?
> to supply something that would not one way or the other convert to the types that source can consume.
Well, clearly `source` takes a string, so it will happily accept "produckname" and blow up at run time.
Short of macros I know of no other compile time mechanism that would enable "safe" strings. The usual workaround is to not use plain string values at all and wrap in a sealed type.