On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 8:17 AM, Peter Jaszkowiak <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Actually flatMap isn't even needed. My question is, why use this over a
> normal map with a conditional? It doesn't seem to really save any space.
Right. The example given:
```
exampleArray.mapOn(Math.sqrt, Number.isInteger); // [1, 1.414, 3, "A",
"B", "C"];
```
can be written with today's code as just:
```
exampleArray.map(x=>Number.isInteger(x) ? Math.sqrt(x) : x);
```
You're paying only a tiny handful of additional characters for this.
-----------------
And in any case, specializing this use-case to Array.map only isn't
too great. This sort of "conditionally call this function" ability
would be useful more generally, with something like:
```
function onlyIf(cond, func) {
return (...x)=>cond(...x) ? func(...x) : x;
}
exampleArray.map(onlyIf(Number.isInteger, Math.sqrt));
```
Feel free to write this into your own code. (Or get super-fancy and
put it on Function.prototype, so you can write
`.map(Math.sqrt.onlyIf(Number.isInteger))` ^_^)
~TJ
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