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