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by sagichmal 4288 days ago 

    > If you cant be sure ahead of time if a value is `"1"` or 
    > `1` (int or string of int)
...then your data provider is _broken_ and you need to take it up with them :)
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stock_toaster 4288 days ago
Well, these are B2B customers, who are huge companies. We have actually had customers say they can't even find which servers are running the code, so could we "pretty please with money on top" just make it work anyway....

Sometimes you actually have to deal with what you get, and can't just "fix the other end".

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RHSeeger 4288 days ago
To be fair, a favorite tagline of the Go community is "it solves real problems". Dirty JSON (with no simple way to fix it) is a real problem.
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