✨ Feature: Blog post on the difference between 'assertion' and 'cast' #144
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Feature
I mention in the book that common use of the two terms are different:
- Assertion commonly means a type-system only operation: we're "asserting" that, regardless of inference, a value is a particular type
- *Cast8 commonly means a runtime change: we're casting/coercing a value at runtime to a different value
This gets confused a lot. IMO it'd be helpful to have an article.
Additional Info
Inspired by @kirkwaiblinger's typescript-eslint/typescript-eslint#10458, thank you Kirk! 😄
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