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by freefal67 3191 days ago
"JavaScript doesn’t include this out of the box, but it’s an interesting exercise to write your own."

I may be misunderstanding point-free notation (I had never heard of it before), but I think `bind` (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...) let's a programmer provide some of the arguments to a function and returns a new function that requires only the remaining arguments.
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Too 3191 days ago
It's also easy to implement as a one liner

   var atleastTwo = function(x){return function(){return Math.max(2,x);}
Even simpler with typescript

   var atLeastTwo = (x) => (() => Math.max(2, x))
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WalterSear 3191 days ago
ES6

    const atLeastTwo = x => Math.max(2,x)
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leshow 3191 days ago
his is a function that returns a function, i.e. you'd need to call atLeastTwo(x)(); to get a result, yours is just a function. in es6 the equivalent thing to what he wrote would be:

    const atLeastTwo = x => () => Math.max(2, x);
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beaconstudios 3191 days ago
bind provides partial application but doesn't directly help towards point-free notation.
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