Going back and forth on this. I really don't want to remove it, but it's not going to do anything. There's no option to not convert numeric types with `TextParser`, **but** `TextParser` behaves sanely when it can't convert things and just leaves things as strings, so it infers types correctly when it can and correctly does *not* convert them when it can't. the automatic type conversion and the handling of all the parameters is the main reason i wanted to switch to using `TextParser`. I also didn't want to reinvent the wheel.