Interesting. Does it work everywhere?
var foo = 20 + Number("1234");
Would that compile to the following and still work?
var foo = 20 + +"1234";
-Alex
On 1/2/17, 3:08 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Apparently Number(“1234”) is the same as a shorthand version: +”1234”.
>Both of these will convert a string into a number and will give NaN if
>the string can not be converted to a logical number.
>
>Performance-wise, different browsers seem to give different results as to
>which one is faster.
>
>I think we should make it standard practice to use “+” instead of
>Number() for casting to Number in FlexJS. It will save 7 characters for
>every cast.
>
>Harbs
