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		cdcarter on Nov 28, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A JavaScript parser and interpreter written in Go The question is what about a JS interpreter makes this necessary.

ek on Nov 28, 2013 [–]

As I answered above to another commenter with a similar question, JavaScript is a dynamically typed language and representing dynamic values in a statically typed language requires a bit of thinking, and unions are a common way of doing this.

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