TypeScript already has the control flow analysis in place to keep track of when x:string|number ends up actually being string or number, so it feels like you could do some of this work in reverse? When a user calls with the string "firstNameChanged', TypeScript will try to infer the right type for K.To do that, it will match K against the content prior to "Changed" and infer the string "firstName".Once TypeScript figures that out, the on method can fetch the type of firstName on the original object, which is string in … In TypeScript, there are several places where type inference is used to provide type information when there is no explicit type annotation. Thanks @RyanCavanaugh for the extensive explanation. Type Inference. I've spent a lot of time converting my Chrome extension to using TypeScript. Mine looks like only one case of "Call" type which was referenced by @treybrisbane. This is what happens when we put contra-variant positions in a conditional type: TypeScript creates an intersection out of it. This is not evangelism of ReScript or a one-to-one comparison with TypeScript. There are fragment functions which take in and returns an object with the key given by the recipe object. infer R is the union of all available types. I created a function that converts Chrome built-in functions from using a callback to being asynchronous, and it's been working well for years. Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. You signed in with another tab or window. So, unless you specify them, they are always going to be any, Right, but is there a reason for them not to? Regretfully, partial type argument inference has not been shipped at the time of this… Notice the infer keyword. And why does the wrapper function change the behavior of this at all (replacing subs with swapNumberString makes the errors go away), if it's all inferential magic? against an explicit declared type with no overloads), can a deduction be made about its type? In this case, no infer… Vote . That reminds me of Flow's existential types, which is a sort of opt-in H-M prover. union 转 intersection，如：T1 | T2-> T1 & T2. The inference is in unidirectional (barring edge cases like recursion), and in inverse direction to the call graph. I believe a Hindley-Milner inferer would give a: boolean | number | string, b: boolean | number | string for your example. To provide the TypeScript compiler some information about expected argument types and return type of the function when arguments are provided in that specific order, we declare functions … Where a parameter is used definitively inside a function (e.g. It is also worth noting that no type annotations need be placed on the parameters declared by function literals passed as callback or assigned to an already typed local. The complexity in implementing either is applying overload resolution as a higher-order type operator. Does it mean this issue won't be fixed? TypeScript sees a function as functional component as long as it returns JSX. @RyanCavanaugh For the following example: The ask is for subs to be inferred as having the overloaded type ((s: string) => number) & ((s: number) => string), based on the usage of s within the body of subs. Eg. Typescript 2.8 added conditional types with type inference. Expected behavior: The promised function signature of the third object property should be inferred in the same respect as the previous two promised functions.. Actual behavior: Typescript is able to infer the promised function signature when it's provided through => Promise.resolve or => new Promise(... but unable to do so when supplied as a result of an async function. Or maybe you're indirectly called via some callback, etc.. Log in sign up. So infer R should be union of them and it's {}. Successfully merging a pull request may close this issue. Copy link Member RyanCavanaugh commented Apr 11, 2017. We’ve written some generic functions that can work on any kind of value. Parameters: If the compiler option --noImplicitAny is on (which it is if --strict is on), then the type of each parameter must be either inferrable or explicitly specified. Function components. This is very different from a function call - you can be in a function on line 1500 and the first call might be on line 4000. I've made a rudimentary attempt at this in master...masaeedu:master that makes the case in the OP (and some others I am interested in) work. It would work for your example with g, and would infer a as number | string | boolean and b as string & number & boolean. The type of the x variable is inferred to be number . 0 errors is more correct (the union type should be handled downstream, and if it's not, the compiler can warn about an unexhaustive match or possibly missing member), but the drawback is nonlocal errors when you're wondering "why is the compiler saying this a union type?". The call to person.calculatePrice below is violating this rule because calculatePrice requires two arguments to be passed in. In the other case, the first thing you do to diagnose the problem is... drumroll... add a parameter type annotation so you can figure out where the bad call is coming from. The TypeScript spec https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/blob/master/doc/spec.md defines how inference works at each declaration site. Close. When a user calls with the string "firstNameChanged', TypeScript will try to infer the right type for K.To do that, it will match K against the content prior to "Changed" and infer the string "firstName".Once TypeScript figures that out, the on method can fetch the type of firstName on the original object, which is string in … Work out all the inevitable hairy edge cases, none of which I've thought about, and bail out in some sensible and graceful way (usually just return undefined, which results in the parameter being, Deal with cycles properly (the algorithm is identical to the stack based one for determining the function's return type, just need to work it into the currently naive implementation), Deal with invocation expressions involving overloaded functions by inferring an overloaded signature for the current function with respect to the used parameter. This is how I understand the docs I linked. For all parameters that cannot otherwise be typed, an additional step is tried before bailing out and inferring any: Obviously this is nowhere near complete, and the implementation does not even fit with the codebase style, but it is something concrete to play with. This post explores using identity functions with carefully constructed type signatures to guide inference towards alternative types. Help with dynamic types from function arguments I've spent a lot of time converting my Chrome extension to using TypeScript. Look for other kinds of "usage" of the parameter, such as assignment to well-typed references, property access, use as a function with well-typed parameters, etc. This seems to be @rtpg's expected behavior. privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails. Already on GitHub? I may have missed something in the docs, but I can't find any way in typescript to get the types of the parameters in a function. type is inferred. https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/typescript-2-8.html. Global inference is also bad at producing sane errors. Both subs("") and subs(12) are valid uses of such an overloaded function. Sign in @RyanCavanaugh Is there some sort of design doc for how TypeScript's type inferer works, and what kind of system it's based on? I imagine it's a lot of work to build this if it's just some optional feature, though (as opposed to feature everyone would use). Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. If you only add this feature, and nothing else, how would this give rise to the "spooky action at a distance" problem you are describing? type ArgumentsType any> = T extends (...args: infer A) => any ? Trying to do inference from call sites looks neat in simple examples but can make it very hard to trace errors to their actual sources, and is unscalable to large programs. But I thought my problem can be solved through new 2.8. The underlying scenario is the same. If you want the type for the first argument to a function, this code does the job: type Arg1 < T extends Function > = T extends ( a1 : infer A1 ) => any ? That reminds me of Flow's existential types, which is a sort of opt-in H-M prover, The very fact that it's opt-in (while the default type is still any). When a user calls with the string "firstNameChanged', TypeScript will try to infer the right type for K.To do that, it will match K against the content prior to "Changed" and infer the string "firstName".Once TypeScript figures that out, the on method can fetch the type of firstName on the original object, which is string in … I agree, this could become a nightmare of different permutations with contradicting definitions. type of function's parameters list; type of arguments list; tuples; Suggestion. Example, for withUID, T is inferred from the type of obj argument. How do Haskell, OCaml, and Elm engineers manage to use their languages at scale? ReScript is not new… For example, in this code. In TypeScript, when you declare a variable and assign a value to it in the same statement, TypeScript annotates the variable with the type it receives from the value. Finally, we infer the parameter to have an intersection of all its "usage types". Function components are normal functions that return JSX elements in React and are used to create views. Considering the simplicity of the example, I imagine I might be missing an important detail in the type system that makes this the proper inference result, but I haven't figured it out yet. #6606 proposed using typeof as syntax, but you can see the same happening using a call syntax foo(number, string) without the typeof keyword. By the way, since #6606 is closed I'm not sure what do you mean by marking mine as a duplicate. It feels within reach, and not much different than other kinds of inference . So I have a situation I can't seem to figure out … So I see it rather as a bug than a feature request. 1-2 errors is restrictive because it requires me to explicitly declare a type with 2 optional members before my program will compile, but as you said, the benefit is errors are local, which makes debugging fast and pleasant. 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