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		ycitm on July 30, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Love for TypeScript You could call your js function with a string, and rather than a compile time error you'd get broken behaviour at runtime.

Too on July 30, 2016 [–]

Inside the function you also have to continue using x as a number, like you wouldnt be able to accidentally pass it into a function accepting only string as argument etc.

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