.map fn

[mmkal]

@aryaemami59 another potential helper that occurred to me might be useful. I'm not totally convinced it's worth it, but thought I'd open a draft PR in case you had thoughts. Given .toBeCallableWith doesn't work well for generic functions, it's a catch-all way to say "I am allowed to do this with my object" and make assertions on the result, without actually calling the function or performing side-effects, etc.:

const capitalize = <S extends string>(input: S) =>
  (input.slice(0, 1).toUpperCase() + input.slice(1)) as Capitalize<S>

expectTypeOf(capitalize)
  .map(fn => fn('hello world'))
  .toEqualTypeOf<'Hello world'>()

But the assertion could just as easily (maybe more easily) be written as:

expectTypeOf(() => capitalize('hello world')).returns.toEqualTypeOf<'Hello world'>()

Which also doesn't actually call capitalize at runtime.

Advantages of .map:

• it makes it clearer it's an asertion about capitalize rather than an inline callback.
• it works fine with expectTypeOf<X>() as well as expectTypeOf(x)
• implementation is v simple so the cost is low

It could also sub in for how we do .toBeCallableWith in #83 too:

type Factorize = {
  (input: number): number[]
  (input: bigint): bigint[]
}

expectTypeOf<Factorize>().map(f => f(12)).toEqualTypeOf<number[]>()
expectTypeOf<Factorize>().map(f => f(12n)).toEqualTypeOf<bigint[]>()

[aryaemami59]

Not sure about this one yet, I'd say let's get #83 in first then we can use this one to potentially fill in any left over gaps.

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[mmkal]

@aryaemami59 I keep forgetting this is still a draft. Not a particularly exciting feature but v small implementation cost and somewhat useful so I'd like to get it in. Let me know if you have any thoughts on the code.