Does not work with functions not in global scope

[goatslacker]

But you knew that already :)

[Ejhfast]

It actually does. See the new example on the readme. Though I agree that the syntax for making the declaration is not ideal:

MyObj = {
    //+ MyObj.test_fun :: Number -> Number -> Number
    test_fun:function(num1, num2){
        return num1 + num2;
    }
}

[Ejhfast]

Also, if you are looking through your fork, you may want to update things... I've already pushed some fairly significant changes/fixes.

[goatslacker]

Oh no I saw that in examples/test.js I'm talking about the private functions inside a closure.

Example:

(function () {
  // no way to access concat automatically :(
  // but TypedJS throws an error!
  //+ concat :: String -> String -> String
  function concat(a, b) {
    return a + b;
  }
}());

I was thinking about this and perhaps there's two ways to attack this problem.

• Use TypedJS along with your unit tests.
• Allow one to call a single automated test from wherever.

[goatslacker]

This is especially an issue for people who write JavaScript programs that don't leak any global variables and their public interface is limited.

[Ejhfast]

Oh, ok. That's a thornier problem. And the private scoping pattern is pretty common... I'll give it some thought.

[goatslacker]

A crazy idea to have automated tests and private functions:

• You parse the JS
• Turn all the functions global in a typedjs sandbox
• Assign them new names (in case of collisions)
• Find/replace all references to those functions with their new names
• Create the test suite with the new functions and signatures mapped to them
• Run the automated tests
• return results

[Ejhfast]

That's not so crazy, really. Proxino's error-detection product did something similar. We got a lot of flack for it from developers, but people might not care so much in this case (since TypedJS is for testing, not production code).

[goatslacker]

I wrote it and it's working pretty ok. I haven't done the assigning of new names or find/replace all references yet but for now it works for functions which don't call other functions.