What matters is not whether you—or any other confused commenter stuck in the second panel of the glowing brain meme—contradicts what I'm saying, but whether the

What matters is not whether you—or any other confused commenter stuck in the second panel of the glowing brain meme—contradicts what I'm saying, but whether the facts do. They don't. You have missed the point, and not just once. Not even twice. > I feel like you are so selectively blind to { isNaN(defaultValue) ? NaN : defaultValue; } being a wart of dynamic typing You seem selectively blind to the fact that (1) the code you are referring to is statically typed, not dynamic; and (2) that I have already addressed this—not even as part of some back-and-forth with you, but before you even waded in to this conversation with your condescending attempt to explain "the point of typing". (Gee, thanks.)