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I wish Typescript had support for partial function application, since I use that much more than “Executioner” classes. Actually, I’ve moved away from OOP in ge

• paulddraper 8y ago
  Outside of type annotations, Typescript never supports syntax that isn't in an ECMAScript standard or a popular proposal. That said, there is a Stage 1 TC39 proposal for partial application. https://github.com/tc39/proposal-partial-application https://github.com/tc39/proposal-partial-application
  • Roboprog 8y ago
    Thanks for the tip. I have been using Ramda’s R.partial() function a bit, as well as some in-house stuff (e.g. - to generate 0-arity event handlers), but this would be a very helpful feature, particularly once IDE recognition becomes widespread. Background: suite of related projects started in early 2015, ES5 on IE11 kind of limitations... (recently started using a transpiler for syntactic sugar)
• javadocmd 8y ago
  Partial function application would be sweet. I wind up manually currying a lot of functions and readability starts to get sketchy. const foo = (a: number, b: number): number => { /*...*/ } to const foo = (a: number) => (b: number): number => { /*...*/ }