microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript

Function type definition with anonymous arguments and optional parentheses for single argument

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Description

Suggestion

🔍 Search Terms

anonymous type argument, optional parentheses

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✅ Viability Checklist

My suggestion meets these guidelines:

  • This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code
  • This wouldn't change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
  • This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of the expressions
  • This isn't a runtime feature (e.g. library functionality, non-ECMAScript syntax with JavaScript output, new syntax sugar for JS, etc.)
  • This feature would agree with the rest of TypeScript's Design Goals.

⭐ Suggestion

Like a anonymous function and anonymous type, it could be nice a type definition with anonymous arguments. Also, as in function definition, function type definition with single argument, the parentheses could be optional.

📃 Motivating Example

This simple enhancement let a more clean and lean code syntaxe.

💻 Use Cases

// currently
function f(callback:(...args: string[]) => void) { ... }

// anonymous arguments
function f(callback: (...string[]) => void) { ... }

// anonymous argument + optional parentheses
function f(callback: ...string[] => void) { ... }

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Research direction

The issue identifies no implementation files, entry points, or tests; start with its motivating examples and requested syntax forms. Done would mean the anonymous-argument and optional-parentheses forms are accepted as described without changing emitted JavaScript, with regression coverage added.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
compilers
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
32/100

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