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Okay, fair enough. Guess I never found about it because I never had to do it... JS also allows for
"test string".toString()
directly, not sure how it goes in other languages.It's also incredibly useful as a failsafe in a helper method where you need the argument to be a string but someone might pass in something that is sort of a string. Lets you be a little more flexible in how your method gets called