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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I dint know many OO languages that donโ€™t have a useless toString on string types

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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