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Re:Writing code for both computers and humans by earthboundkid on Friday November 10, 2023 @07:34PM (#38226387)
Yeah, ideally you’d have some kind of static typing to restrict the code to only use Number, and then a comment that says what the function does in case of NaN.
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Re:Writing code for both computers and humans by carapace on Saturday November 11, 2023 @10:18AM (#38231037)
Yeah!

There was a thread the other day about a linter that flagged useless code and all the odd bugs it caught, and I think it would have flagged this snippet, eh?

"Interesting bugs caught by no-constant-binary-expression"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38196644

https://eslint.org/blog/2022/07/interesting-bugs-caught-by-n...

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