I get a feeling that it is just a band aid because of unsanitized data and sloppy coding practices. If you subscribe to the philosophy of sanitizing and valida

I get a feeling that it is just a band aid because of unsanitized data and sloppy coding practices. If you subscribe to the philosophy of sanitizing and validating user data on the edge as soon as you receive it and then stick to using whatever data type you decided on, this is much less of a problem (any mismatch in runtime would then be considered a bug).