early reply .... "which otehr cases"? this is just an example:
[2019, 08, 16, 14, 28, 30].map(i => i < 10 ? ('0' + i) :
i).joinWith('--T::.');
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 2:24 PM Andrea Giammarchi <
andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> `this ${Symbol('throws')} an error`, so anything that cannot be
> represented as string should throw too, as it is for `[1, 2,
> 3].join(Symbol())`.
>
> In few words, everything described as parameter for the
> `Array.prototype.join(param)` should be described as the iterable value,
> nothng new to add, nothing different to expect.
>
> The template literal as is returns a string, but if you use tags, as
> functions, you deal with an array and a collection or extra values (0 to
> template.length - 1).
>
> The current way to flatten a template via tag, used already in various
> projects for a reason or another, is the following one:
>
> ```js
> function tag2str(template) {
> let str = template[0];
> for (let i = 1, t = template.length; i < t; i++)
> str += arguments[i] + template[i];
> return str;
> }
> ```
>
> I am proposing to simplify this common case with something that could be
> used for other cases too.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 1:17 PM Naveen Chawla <naveen.c...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Cool.
>>
>> I get it now apart from the "templated string" example. I'm not very
>> knowledgable about templated strings but on the face it looks like
>> 'a${x}b${y}' already inserts x and y into the string, so I'm not sure what
>> else is happening with your proposed method? Clearly I've missed something.
>>
>> Apart from that, how would you handle arrays that whose values are not
>> all strings?
>>
>> For naming is still think "weave" would be OK from what I know so far
>>
>> On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 at 11:08, Andrea Giammarchi <
>> andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> given an array, it joins it through the values of the iterable argument,
>>> without ever resulting to undefined
>>>
>>> ['a', 'b', 'c'].joinWith(['-']) would produce "a-b-c"
>>>
>>> ['a', 'b', 'c'].joinWith([1, 2]) would produce "a1b2c"
>>>
>>> ['a', 'b', 'c'].joinWith('012') would produce "a0b1c"
>>> note the string, as iterable, is acceptable too
>>>
>>> const tag = (template, ...values) => template.joinWith(values);
>>> tag`a${Math.random()}b${Math.random()}`; would fill the gap between a
>>> and b, or b and c, with the value returned by the two Math.random()
>>>
>>> ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'].joinWith('01'); would produce "a0b1c0d" so that
>>> there's never an `undefined
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 12:01 PM Naveen Chawla <naveen.c...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm just not seeing what it's supposed to do. If you could give a brief
>>>> explanation of the array method, and the string method then of course I
>>>> would get it. I know it would seem obvious to you from the examples alone,
>>>> it's just not to me.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 at 08:32, Andrea Giammarchi <
>>>> andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Just to re-state: zip from lowdash, does **not** do what my proposed
>>>>> method does ... anything that won't produce the following result is not
>>>>> what I'm proposing
>>>>>
>>>>> console.log(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'].joinWith([1, 2]));
>>>>> // a1b2c1d
>>>>>
>>>>> function tag2str(template, ...values) {
>>>>> return template.joinWith(values);
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> tag2str`a${1}b${2}c`;
>>>>> // "a1b2c"
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 5:57 AM Isiah Meadows <isiahmead...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> For that, I'd rather see an `interleave` that just rotates through all
>>>>>> its arguments. It'd be basically sugar for `.zip().flat()`, but an
>>>>>> implementation could optimize the heck out of it. (In particular, they
>>>>>> could iterate through them one-by-one and only allocate once, not in
>>>>>> the hot loop, so it'd be fast.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I at one point had it in my list of wishlist proposals, but it somehow
>>>>>> disappeared. I've since recreated it:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/isiahmeadows/es-stdlib-proposals/blob/master/proposals/array/interleave.md
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Isiah Meadows
>>>>>> cont...@isiahmeadows.com
>>>>>> www.isiahmeadows.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 1:12 PM Andrea Giammarchi
>>>>>> <andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > That;s not useful for template literals tags though
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > _.zip(['a', 'b', 'c'], [1, 2]);
>>>>>> > [["a", 1], ["b", 2], ["c", undefined]]
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > it basically does nothing I've proposed ... any other name
>>>>>> suggestion?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 3:40 PM Michał Wadas <michalwa...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> https://lodash.com/docs/#zip
>>>>>> >> https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#zip
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, 15:34 Andrea Giammarchi, <
>>>>>> andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> the suggested name is just ... suggested, I don't have strong
>>>>>> opinion on it, it just `join` values through other values
>>>>>> >>> what's `Array.zip` ? I've no idea
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 12:53 PM Michał Wadas <
>>>>>> michalwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>> >>>> I would rather see Array.zip, it covers this use case.
>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>> >>>> On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, 10:50 Andrea Giammarchi, <
>>>>>> andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>>> >>>>> I wonder if there's any interest in adding another handy Array
>>>>>> method as joinWith could be:
>>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>>> >>>>> ```js
>>>>>> >>>>> // proposal example
>>>>>> >>>>> Array.prototype.joinWith = function (values) {
>>>>>> >>>>> const {length} = this;
>>>>>> >>>>> if (length < 2)
>>>>>> >>>>> return this.join('');
>>>>>> >>>>> const out = [this[0]];
>>>>>> >>>>> const len = values.length;
>>>>>> >>>>> for (let i = 1; i < length; i++) {
>>>>>> >>>>> console.log(i, len);
>>>>>> >>>>> out.push(values[(i - 1) % len], this[i]);
>>>>>> >>>>> }
>>>>>> >>>>> return out.join('');
>>>>>> >>>>> };
>>>>>> >>>>> ```
>>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>>> >>>>> The goal is to simplify joining array entries through not the
>>>>>> same value, example:
>>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>>> >>>>> ```js
>>>>>> >>>>> console.log(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'].joinWith([1, 2]));
>>>>>> >>>>> // a1b2c1d
>>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>>> >>>>> function tag2str(template, ...values) {
>>>>>> >>>>> return template.joinWith(values);
>>>>>> >>>>> }
>>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>>> >>>>> tag2str`a${1}b${2}c`;
>>>>>> >>>>> // "a1b2c"
>>>>>> >>>>> ```
>>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>>> >>>>> Throughts?
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