I've come across this problem a number of times. The same applies in, for example, passing IDs across in JSON where I use strings if at all possible. Even mone

I've come across this problem a number of times. The same applies in, for example, passing IDs across in JSON where I use strings if at all possible. Even money amount are typically challenging to treat as numeric as often that drops them into a float when you shouldn't be processing money amounts as floats.