• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      So, the flip side to that is that sometimes you need to add one month to a date, because that sometimes how human systems are written.
      By not providing a function that does that, you’re just pushing the confusion down to the developer, who is more likely to make terrible errors in the process, get frustrated, or use one of N different competing libraries, each of which chose a different answer.

      Omitting functionality that can behave unintuitively in certain circumstances means leaving out a lot of functionality that people need.

      Like, “decimal numbers” go pathological in certain cases. So do Unicode characters. Don’t even bother thinking about connecting to the network.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      Exactly, it’s better to not have these sorts of “conveniences” than to create weird pitfalls. I find a lot of crazy Js behaviors are ultimately a result of Js trying to be accommodating of inputs that should just be straight up rejected.