Schrodinger JS.
Reposted from Reddit with permission by OP /u/arrrthur10

To be fair, if your conversion methods modify the object, you've done something you should be ashamed of.

But, lolwtf string conversion. I know JS has this situation well defined, and this is expected, but it really shouldn't do that.

The consent from actual author,. You deserve an upvote

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