# Why is BigInt broken?

**URL:** <https://es.discourse.group/t/why-is-bigint-broken/567>\
**Category:** 🦋 Proposals\
**Tags:** proposal\
**Created:** [December 5, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/why-is-bigint-broken/567 "2020-12-05T00:21:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![ljharb](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/ljharb/32/8_2.png) [@ljharb](https://es.discourse.group/u/ljharb)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/why-is-bigint-broken/567/8 "2020-12-18T18:16:36Z")

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We’ve tried pretty hard to avoid that legacy pattern, and make absence and undefined always be treated the same.

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