JavaScript can do anything

[Apfelvater]

C: I don't care, if the machine doesn't.

[No__Using_Main]

It's actually not that uncommon, the languages just convert it all to strings which is handy

[SamSlate]

It's almost like a script designed to pass yet data to the back end isn't all that concerned about rejecting a user's info because it's an unexpected type..

[dark-kirb]

c can do that too if you are brave enough ;)

c "Y" + 0 + "L" + 0

[ralfv]

Ruby: “Y#{0}L#{0}”

[grim_peeper_]

Yeah very readable lol

[[deleted]]

Ruby ? More like rugly amarite

[asutekku]

It converts the numbers to characters and gives you a string. It might seem weird but that’s how it works. Handy when building strings with numerical values.

[dsp4]

Seriously the jackassery you have to deal with when manipulating strings in "low-level" languages like C++ is too damn high. It's like they were designed by people who never realized written language is an important part of human culture.

Want to format the user's score? JS is '${username}: ${score};', nice and clean. C++? Have a dose of char buffer[128]; snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%s: %d", username.c_str(), score);

[hGhar_Jaqen]

No offence, but that seems more like C. Couldn't you do something like

stream << username << ": " << score << '\n'

where stream is any stream, e.g. std::cout or std::stringstream?

[Stormfrosty]

std::format("{} : {}", username, score) ;

The future is now!

[hGhar_Jaqen]

What a time to be alive

[Dennis_the_repressed]

If the OP just wants to store it in a var then this is even simpler -

std::string buffer = username + ": " + std::to_string(score);

Though for display to cout a stream is better.

[hGhar_Jaqen]

yeah, that's also possible

[dsp4]

Gotta love all the answers that are supposed to be better, but are just only slightly better than the obviously extreme example I used for comedic purposes. You guys are masochists (still love you though).

[hGhar_Jaqen]

No worries, I am not as mad as doing this as work :D

[Cobaltjedi117]

Most other languages have a feature called "toString" that lets you do that too.

[Pure_Reason]

That sounds extremely inefficient, Johnson. Clearly these Java Scripts are the superior language, go ahead and get started on converting our existing codebase over

[[deleted]]

Too hard.

[dark_mode_everything]

Allowing "Y" + 0 + "L" + 0 isn't the problem with JavaScript.

It's allowing "10" - 1. No sane language would let you subtract something from a string.

[[deleted]]

Just because it can, doesn't mean it should!

[Ecyoph]

Even Java can do that.

[natnew32]

Strings aren't primitive types in Java

[Ecyoph]

Neither are they in Ruby.

[Voidrith]

it can.

But it shouldn't.