Unwanted Surprises.

The article provides an answer to a question concerning JavaScript's type coercion in timeout functions, highlighting the API's unexpected and potentially problematic behavior of silently converting non-numeric inputs into numbers, and advocates for stricter error handling and cautious programming p...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 67; no. 12; pp. 35 - 37
Autor principal:	Neville-Neil, George V.
Formato:	Question & Answer
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Dec2024
Materias:	JavaScript programming language Integers Application program interfaces Time
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Sumario:	The article provides an answer to a question concerning JavaScript's type coercion in timeout functions, highlighting the API's unexpected and potentially problematic behavior of silently converting non-numeric inputs into numbers, and advocates for stricter error handling and cautious programming practices to mitigate such issues.