Jan 7, 2011 · Not sure if this answers the question, but there is a new library for getting around all of Javascript's Typecasting weirdnesses: Typecast.js. In a sentence, Typecast solves all the simple problems, so you can focus on the big ones. Typecast fixes what's wrong with Javascript by creating a complete platform for strongly-typed variables in ...

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Jul 3, 2015 · "we don't usually think of casting in Javascript, but rather just converting". Absolutely. Variables are typeless, values have a Type (which often isn't related to the value returned by typeof). Anything returned by a constructor has a Type of Object, however that's pretty useless. Usually constructor is more informative, but unreliable. –

This is called type assertion in TypeScript, and since TypeScript 1.6, there are two ways to express this: // Original syntax var markerSymbolInfo = <MarkerSymbolInfo> symbolInfo; // Newer additional syntax var markerSymbolInfo = symbolInfo as MarkerSymbolInfo;

Jun 18, 2012 · Casting this to a string (by whichever method) before testing it results in a failure: either an exception that's unhandled, or the string "UNDEFINED" which is indistinguishable from the user input "UNDEFINED". Of course, it would be better and much more expected if JS converts it to an empty string, but it's browser-specific.

There are two main ways to convert a string to a number in JavaScript. One way is to parse it and the other way is to change its type to a Number. All of the tricks in the other answers (e.g., unary plus) involve implicitly coercing the type of the string to a number. You can also do the same thing explicitly with the Number function. Parsing

Jan 5, 2012 · I don't like the question. JS doesn't use classes or casting, it uses functions to create objects -constructors-, it uses prototypes instead of classes. I like the Object.assign approach which is a function that copies the properties from one object to another. I'd like to say that sometimes you only need the @type, see JSDoc. –

Aug 17, 2017 · When a developer expresses the intention to convert between types by writing the appropriate code, like Number(value), it’s called explicit type coercion (or type casting). Since JavaScript is a weakly-typed language, values can also be converted between different types automatically, and it is called implicit type coercion.

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Nov 5, 2008 · Pick a point in the JavaScript logic where they need to transition from string sentinels to native type and do a comparison there, preferably where it only gets done once for each value that needs to be converted. Remember to address what needs to happen if the string sentinel is not one the script knows (i.e. do you default to true or to false?)