If somewhere later on in the code it shifts to string, I might not be manipulating that and getting actual values out, but not what I wanted, and it's going to be really hard for me to chase it back.

然后后面的一些代码,把变量类型变为了字符串，我可能不会通过实际操作,去取得实际的变量的类型，但是这并不是我想要的类型,而且对我来说把类型，变回去也很困难。

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You don't have to declare a special variable for it if you don't care about its actual value.

你并不需要为它声明一个特定的变量,如果你不关心它的实际值。

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