>>conveniences of the backend coding environment in a frontend application
I don't think this is required. I'm thinking about light-weight wrappers around
A-2-B style converters, no ties to the backend or client. A free standing util
library. The idea doesn't require a backend environment.
>>want to tighten up the expectations on backend datatypes to try>>to make them work in a frontend-ish environment.
Making timestamp2tm or tm2timestamp (for example) work in the backend as well as
the client seems rather straight forward, unless I am missing something. I am
not talking about making the data type functional: like add, divide, multiply
funtions. I am only referring to data type converters.
>>The chances of that happening reliably are about nil.
Why? Again, I could be missing something.
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