If the curation process allows joke packages to pass through, it is completely useless. Looks like the only difference from npm is extra bureaucracy then.
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see here: https://repl.it/Cqeq/0
But that's not really the point, crdoconnor seems to think that languages should throw an error in cases like this, not just keep the type of the first argument.
I guess companies should stop using Java for big enterprise applications with tons of dependencies. Or this isn't a problem because programmers usually know the basics of the language they are using. And if they don't, then that is the problem, not the language.
btw, Python: '1' * 3 -> '111'