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Why does list get converted into iterable? #684

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OliverJAsh opened this issue Nov 2, 2015 · 8 comments
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Why does list get converted into iterable? #684

OliverJAsh opened this issue Nov 2, 2015 · 8 comments

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@OliverJAsh
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This might be a silly question.

How come when I map over a list it gets converted into an iterable? This means I have to litter my code with toList everywhere, like so:

List([1,2]).map(x => x+1).toList().interpose('foo');

Thanks again for the awesome work!

@tomwidmer
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It doesn't, in your example toList() is redundant. The first line of the docs for map states: "Returns a new Iterable of the same type". Remember List extends Iterable, and the return type is given as Iterable to avoid having to write separate map documentation for all the different collection types. However, Map.map returns a Map, List.map returns a List, etc.

@OliverJAsh
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Ah, but I get a compile error when using TypeScript:

Immutable.List(['foo'])
    .map(x => x)
    .interpose(5)

Error:

main.ts(27,6): error TS2339: Property 'interpose' does not exist on type 'Iterable<number, string | number>'.

@myitcv
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myitcv commented Nov 4, 2015

#634 and microsoft/TypeScript#4967 are related.

Large parts of the type definition can be improved following the merging of microsoft/TypeScript#4910 however the issue with map remains as far as I can tell (see the comments in microsoft/TypeScript#4967 in particular)

Whatever the solution here, it raises the question of how we improve the type definition whilst maintaining some degree of backwards compatibility. I can potentially foresee a situation where we end up with multiple typings with suffixes that correspond to TypeScript compiler versions...

In any case, the immediate solution here is to simply assert the type:

(<List<number>>List([1,2]).map(x => x+1)).interpose('foo')

because we know the underlying implementation actually returns a container of the same type, List<number> in this situation.

@OliverJAsh
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I am using type assertions to work around this, but how come this doesn't work?

(<List<number | string>>List([1,2]).map(x => x+1)).interpose('foo')

@OliverJAsh
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Or this:

const x = <List<number>>List([1, 2]).map(x => x + 1);
x.map(x => x + 1).interpose('foo')

@myitcv
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myitcv commented Nov 13, 2015

Breaking apart your first example according to precedence of operators:

List([1,2]) // has type List<number>, inferred from the array of numbers you provide
List([1,2]).map(x => x+1) // therefore has type Iterable<number, number>, per previous comments about map signature

The type assertion has the weakest precedence hence these two are equivalent:

<List<number | string>>List([1,2]).map(x => x+1)
<List<number | string>>(List([1,2]).map(x => x+1))

which is why you get a compile error in both cases.

Given your map function (which appears to only work on number), I'm not entirely sure what you intended here... but hopefully the comments about precedence help steer you in the right direction.

Some other comments:

let a = List([1,2]); // a has type List<number>
let b = List<number>([1,2]); // b has type List<number>
let c = List<number | string>([1,2]); // c has type List<number | string>
let d = <List<number | string>>List([1,2]); // d has type List<number | string>

@OliverJAsh
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Thanks @myitcv, that helps!

@leebyron
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leebyron commented Mar 4, 2017

Fixed in master, will be released soon

@leebyron leebyron closed this as completed Mar 4, 2017
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