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Request: Allow types to be specified in function declarations and support interface concepts
Typescript is important from a team-scalability perspective. Coffeescript is important from a productivity and maintainability perspective (although these obviously impact team-scale concepts too).
It would be fantastic if we could optionally write functions like the following...
myFunc = (a:String or Number, b:Person) ->
.... so that IDE's could quickly give us hints on types. Type inference is a better alternative in most instances but even the best IDE's are still struggling with how to do this well without hinting.
I've recently being getting a lot of use out of a utility function with the signature below specifically to provide a hint to a custom IDE extension (plus a little simple exception throwing), but such an approach is never going to spread...
confirmArgumentTypes arguments, {a:[String, Number], b:Person}
Agreed, this would be a huge improvement, I think Typescript is great. Just might not be doable without an unmergable fork away from mainline CoffeeScript
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:12 PM, m1sta [email protected] wrote:
Typescript is important from a team-scalability perspective. Coffeescript is important from a productivity and maintainability perspective (although these obviously impact team-scale concepts too).
It would be fantastic if we could optionally write functions like the following...
myFunc = (a:String or Number, b:Person) ->
.... so that IDE's could quickly give us hints on types. Type inference is a better alternative in most instances but even the best IDE's are still struggling with how to do this well without hinting.
— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/maxtaco/coffee-script/issues/82 .
True. Maybe this should be an issue in the main coffeescript branch instead then?
Yeah! Might already be there, worth a check. On Aug 7, 2013 10:30 PM, "m1sta" [email protected] wrote:
True. Maybe this should be an issue in the main coffeescript branch instead then?
— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/maxtaco/coffee-script/issues/82#issuecomment-22303663 .
