Potato is not just a word.. 😎😎

WHO ATE THE POTATO!?

Oh it was your potatoes.
Sorry, but i made potato chips out of them.

Thats dynamic languages for you.
Typescript is the way too go.

It's primitive numbers vs Number objects. Whenever you bind a primitive like 5 as the 'this' context of a function JavaScript has to turn it into a Number object because 'this' must always be an object.

The Number object evidently stays an object for normal operators. But the increment operator for some reason returns a number primitive. So the object's properties are lost. And you can't reassign them because a number primitive can't have properties.

This code is enough to show the problem:

function bool(){
return this? true: false;
}
alert(bool.call(false) === true)

That's pretty Irish tbh. Irish love potatoes.