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JavaScript

Posted by Taylor Sternberg
Taylor Sternberg
1,265 Points

I didn’t need parseInt. Why?

Even when I ran this without parseInt, my code was successful. Is there a reason for this?

1 Answer

Antti Lylander
Antti Lylander
9,686 Points
Antti Lylander
Antti Lylander
9,686 Points

JavaScript is a loosely typed language and in some cases values are coerced into another type, e.g. from string to number. Show your code if you have more concerns about it.