spots

Partial function argument binding with placeholders

spots makes it simple to bind some arguments, leaving the rest free.

var S = require('spots');
function sub(a, b) {
  return a - b;
}
// use library itself as a placeholder
var minus1 = S(sub, S, 1);
// minus1 = sub(_, 1) function
minus1(9); // 8, same as sub(9, 1);

It can apply more than 1 argument.

function add4(a, b, c, d) { return a + b + c + d; }
var applyEven = S(add4, S, 1, S, 2);
applyEven(-1, -2); // 0
// equivalent to add4(-1, 1, -2, 2);

It works very nice to solve JavaScript Madness problem.

['1', '2', '3'].map(S(parseInt, S, 10));
// returns [1, 2, 3]

You can use spots with functional-pipeline to apply arguments to the individual steps.

var fp = require('functional-pipeline');
function add(a, b) { return a + b; }
function sub(a, b) { return a - b; }
fp(
  S(sub, 1, S),
  S(add, S, 20)
)(3); // 18
// same as
// add( sub(1, 3), 20 )

Real world example chdir-promise index.js where we use spots to pass argument to Q.try method.

If there is a context (like filling some arguments to a method), you can bind to the object after applying spots

var calc = {
  name: 'calc',
  add4: function (a, b, c, d) {
    return this.name + ' ' + a + b + c + d;
  }
};
var add_2_4 = S(calc.add4, S, 2, S, 4).bind(calc);
add_2_4(1, 3); // calc 10

Related:

• Point-free is not pointless
• Selective application
• functional-pipeline
• heroin

Available on NPM and bower under name spots.

Small print

Author: Gleb Bahmutov © 2014

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License: MIT - do anything with the code, but don't blame me if it does not work.

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Copyright (c) 2014 Gleb Bahmutov

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