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Yeah, ideally you’d have some kind of static typing to restrict the code to only use Number, and then a comment that says what the function does in case of NaN.



Yeah!

There was a thread the other day about a linter that flagged useless code and all the odd bugs it caught, and I think it would have flagged this snippet, eh?

"Interesting bugs caught by no-constant-binary-expression"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38196644

https://eslint.org/blog/2022/07/interesting-bugs-caught-by-n...




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