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…”

  • @bitfucker@programming.dev
    4•5 months ago

    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.

    • ladEnglish
      1•5 months ago

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

      /j

      Yes, 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