It seems like the partial application proposal covers all of the use cases
of yours, at a first glance. What does yours offer that partial application
does not?
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:23 AM Andrew Kaiser <kaisea....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you see a way these proposals can work together? I believe they are
> solving different needs. Both proposals produce a new anonymous function,
> but partial application deals with currying, while the placeholder proposal
> tries to prevent writing a function at all. I can actually see the two
> working together:
>
> ```js
> const filenames = ['file1.txt', 'file2.txt' 'output.log' ]
> const fileContainsContent = (filename, content) =>
> fs.readFileSync(filename).toString().includes(content)
>
> const fileSearchers = filenames.map(fileContainsContent(*, ?))
> const filesContainingSearch = fileSearchers.filter(searcher =>
> searcher('foobar'))
> ```
>
> This isn't a very useful example, but you can see how the proposals differ
> accomplish different things
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 1:30 PM Jordan Harband <ljh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You may be interested in the partial application proposal:
>> https://github.com/tc39/proposal-partial-application
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 10:17 AM Andrew Kaiser <kaisea....@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have created a short proposal to introduce syntactic sugar for
>>> anonymous functions in a 'scala-like' manner, linked here
>>> https://github.com/andykais/proposal-placeholder-syntax.
>>>
>>> I am hoping to hear feedback on whether or not this is interesting to
>>> people, as well as feedback on the proposal itself (e.g. is there a better
>>> operator to use than ` * `)
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