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 <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 for +
>
> :D
>
> On Feb 22, 6:18 pm, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> 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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