They are busy with their spaceship-size configuration files, so we safe :)

On 23.02.2012, at 18:30, Lothar Pfeiler <lpfei...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> I still wonder, if it's cool to have such a big discussion on how to
> convert a string into an integer, or if all the java developers laugh
> at us. :-)
> 
> On Feb 23, 5:17 am, Dave Clements <huperekch...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> +1 for +
>> 
>> :D
>> 
>> On Feb 22, 6:18 pm, Mark Hahn <m...@hahnca.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>>  +'123 px'
>>>>  NaN
>> 
>>> And that is exactly correct.  '123 px'  is not a number.   Using that
>>> "feature" is worse than trusting type coercion.  I would never trust that
>>> in my code, just as I always use === instead of ==.  Well actually I use
>>> "is" in coffee, but that is a different subject.
>> 
>>> What if your string was accidentally "100%" instead of "100 px"?
>> 
>>> You said nothing is right for me.  I'm just pointing out that was an overly
>>> broad statement.  Using + instead of parseInt *is* exactly right for me.
>> 
>>> If you want to be able to use '010' to represent 8 and '1xyz' to represent
>>> 1, then more power to you.  I myself will never use parseInt.  Not only for
>>> the behavior but because it takes too much typing, is less succinct and
>>> therefore is less readable.
>> 
>>> Compare...
>>>     area = +w * +h
>>> To ...
>>>      area = parseInt(w, 10) * parseInt(h, 10)
> 
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