Mostly every Array extra in ES5 would work with those functions, e.g.
```js
function multiplyPoints (_p2) {
var { x1: x, y1: y } = this;
var { x2: x, y2: y } = _p2;
return { x: x1 * x2, y: y1 * y2 };
}
var multiplied = manyPoints.map(multiplyPoints, centralPoint);
```
It's not that common pattern but it gives you the ability to recycle
functions as both methods or filters or mappers or forEachers and
vice-versa.
I personally use those kind of functions quite a lot to be honest, most
developers keep ignoring Array extra second parameter as context though,
they probably use a wrapped fat arrow within an IFI with call(context) :D
Best Regards
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 3:53 PM, C. Scott Ananian <ecmascr...@cscott.net>
wrote:
> Could you include some examples of *calling* functions defined this way?
> The most obvious way uses `Function#call` and would be terribly awkward.
> Perhaps I'm just overlooking some ES6 feature which makes passing a
> specific `this` value easy?
>
> It seems curious that you are not using methods instead of functions.
> --scott
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:41 AM, Jussi Kalliokoski <
> jussi.kallioko...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's probably a bit early for this, but I figured I'd put it out there (I
>> already proposed this as a tangent in the function bind syntax thread).
>> This syntax proposal is purely about convenience and subjective
>> expressiveness (like any feature addition to a Turing complete language).
>>
>> As I've been building Trine, I noticed that the "`this` as data" pattern
>> is extremely powerful and expressive, however the code in the functions
>> doesn't convey the intent very clearly. For example:
>>
>> function add (b) { return this + b; }
>> function * map (fn) { for ( let item of this ) { yield item::fn(); } }
>>
>> vs.
>>
>> function add (a, b) { return a + b; }
>> function * map (iterator, fn) { for ( let item of iterator ) { yield
>> item::fn(); } }
>>
>> Also currently neither Flow or TypeScript support type annotating this.
>> There's discussion [1] [2] in both the projects for allowing `this` to be
>> specified as a parameter to allow annotating it, e.g.
>>
>> function add (this : number, b : number) : number { return this + b; }
>>
>> This leads to my current proposal, i.e. being able to make the first
>> parameter of the function an alias for `this` by using a special prefix
>> (&). This would not only allow aliasing `this`, but also destructuring and
>> default values (as well as type annotation in language extensions).
>>
>> The different forms and their desugarings:
>>
>> function add (&a, b) {
>> return a + b;
>> }
>>
>> // would desugar to
>>
>> function add (b) {
>> var a = this;
>> return a + b;
>> }
>>
>>
>> function multiplyTuple (&[a, b], multiplier) {
>> return [a * multiplier, b * multiplier];
>> }
>>
>> // would desugar to
>> function multiplyTuple (multiplier) {
>> var [a, b] = this;
>> return [a * multiplier, b * multiplier];
>> }
>>
>>
>> function multiplyPoints (&{ x1: x, y1: y }, { x2: x, y2: y }) {
>> return { x: x1 * x2, y: y1 * y2 };
>> }
>>
>> // would desugar to
>> function multiplyPoints (_p2) {
>> var { x1: x, y1: y } = this;
>> var { x2: x, y2: y } = _p2;
>> return { x: x1 * x2, y: y1 * y2 };
>> }
>>
>>
>> // allow passing the element for mocking in tests
>> function isQsaSupported (&dummyElement = document) {
>> return typeof dummyElement.querySelectorAll !== "undefined";
>> }
>>
>>
>> This proposal would also be consistent with the type annotation proposals
>> for `this` mentioned earlier.
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/facebook/flow/issues/452
>> [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/1985
>>
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