@returns(Self) ? about decoratethis

[mako-taco]

what do you think of having the decorator handling the return (as opposed to just checking it)?

class T {
  @chainable
  add(number) {
    this.total += number;
  }
}

[callumlocke]

Interesting. I guess so, why not

[callumlocke]

Actually, I've been thinking about this, and here is an opinion... Having a decorator called chainable feels like a small piece of automation that doesn't actually add much value (it's just as easy and more explicit to return this). And it feels like it's straying from the 'type-checking' purpose of this library. In fact, I think you should consider refocusing the whole library so it's not just a "mixed bag" of decorators, and instead it's purely decorators for adding type-checking to JS. In other words, get rid of "debounce", "curry" etc. (or put them in a separate lib). And change the name to something like "type-decorators" or "strict-type". The library is already 90% about type-checking anyway, and I think it might have more appeal if it was completely focused on it. You may disagree though.

[callumlocke]

did you mean to close this?

[mako-taco]

yeah, wont be adding it

[callumlocke]

any particular reason? do you have another way for verifying that a method returns this?