Announcing TypeScript 1.7

Post by Arnavion » Wed, Dec 02, 2015, 6:30 PM UTC

mythz wrote: post #88

Arnavion wrote: post #84

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>This is Incorrect, it doesn't assume anything. Dart's method cascades just returns the receiver, it doesn't matter what the method returns, it's value is ignored and receiver is returned instead. ... which would only be useful if the method was void-returning or returned the this-instance, i.e., it didn't return a new instance and left the LHS unmodified.

> which would only be useful if the method was void-returning or returned the this-instance Simply untrue, there are plenty of times methods have side-effects that return something other than void or itself, e.g: - Incrementing a value and returning the current value - Inserting or Updating rows and returning the number of rows affected - Setting an entry and returning whether there was an existing entry or not

Post by DCoder » Wed, Dec 02, 2015, 7:56 PM UTC

freditup wrote: post #90

DCoder wrote: post #64

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There are some subtle behavioural differences between the Language Service and the regular compiler, for example: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/5243

Good clarification. Perhaps the compiler API is the better choice here? I'm not fully aware of the differences / divisions between the two. https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Using-the-Compi...