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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…”

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep. Much like we don't treat phone numbers like a number. The rule of thumb is that if you don't do any arithmetic with it, it is not a "number" but numeric.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well, we don't, but every electonic tables software out in the wild on the other hand…

/jYes, I know that you can force it to become text by prepending ' to the phone, choose an appropriate format for the cells, etc, etc

The point is that this often requires meddling after the phone gets displayed as something like 3e10