jscrewit 2.30.0 → 2.33.1

package/lib/feature.d.ts

@@ -1,18 +1,5 @@
 import { ElementaryFeatureName, FeatureAll, PredefinedFeatureName } from './feature-all';
 
-/**
- * An array containing any number of feature objects or names or aliases of predefined features, in
- * no particular order.
- *
- * All of the specified features need to be compatible, so that their union can be constructed.
- *
- * @remarks
- *
- * Methods that accept parameters of this type throw an error if the specified features are not
- * mutually compatible.
- */
-export type CompatibleFeatureArray = readonly FeatureElement[];
-
 export interface CustomFeature extends Feature
 {
     readonly elementary: false;
@@ -43,7 +30,8 @@ export interface ElementaryFeature extends PredefinedFeature
  * elementary features.
  * Two of the predefined composite features are particularly important: <code>[[DEFAULT]]</code> is
  * the empty feature, indicating that no elementary feature is available at all;
- * <code>[[AUTO]]</code> is the union of all elementary features available in the current engine.
+ * <code>[[AUTO]]</code> is the union of all elementary features available in the current
+ * environment.
  *
  * Not all features can be available at the same time: some features are necessarily incompatible,
  * meaning that they mutually exclude each other, and thus their union cannot be constructed.
@@ -80,7 +68,7 @@ export interface Feature
      * `true` if this feature object includes all of the specified features; otherwise, `false`.
      * If no arguments are specified, the return value is `true`.
      */
-    includes(...features: (FeatureElement | CompatibleFeatureArray)[]): boolean;
+    includes(...features: FeatureElementOrCompatibleArray[]): boolean;
 
     /**
      * Creates a new feature object from this feature by removing elementary features that are not
@@ -154,7 +142,7 @@ export interface FeatureConstructor extends FeatureAll
      *
      * An error is thrown if any of the specified features are not mutually compatible.
      */
-    (...features: (FeatureElement | CompatibleFeatureArray)[]): CustomFeature;
+    (...features: FeatureElementOrCompatibleArray[]): CustomFeature;
 
     /**
      * An immutable mapping of all predefined feature objects accessed by name or alias.
@@ -207,7 +195,7 @@ export interface FeatureConstructor extends FeatureAll
      *
      * An error is thrown if any of the specified features are not mutually compatible.
      */
-    new (...features: (FeatureElement | CompatibleFeatureArray)[]): CustomFeature;
+    new (...features: FeatureElementOrCompatibleArray[]): CustomFeature;
 
     /**
      * Determines whether the specified features are mutually compatible.
@@ -254,7 +242,7 @@ export interface FeatureConstructor extends FeatureAll
      * JScrewIt.Feature.areEqual("DEFAULT", [])
      * ```
      */
-    areEqual(...features: (FeatureElement | CompatibleFeatureArray)[]): boolean;
+    areEqual(...features: FeatureElementOrCompatibleArray[]): boolean;
 
     /**
      * Creates a new feature object equivalent to the intersection of the specified features.
@@ -279,8 +267,7 @@ export interface FeatureConstructor extends FeatureAll
      * const newFeature = JScrewIt.Feature.commonOf("HTMLDOCUMENT", "DOCUMENT");
      * ```
      */
-    commonOf(...features: (FeatureElement | CompatibleFeatureArray)[]):
-    CustomFeature | null;
+    commonOf(...features: FeatureElementOrCompatibleArray[]): CustomFeature | null;
 
     /**
      * Returns a short description of a predefined feature in plain English.
@@ -310,6 +297,18 @@ export interface FeatureConstructor extends FeatureAll
  */
 export type FeatureElement = Feature | keyof FeatureAll;
 
+/**
+ * A feature object, a name or alias of a predefined feature, or an array of such values that
+ * defines a union of mutually compatible features.
+ *
+ * @remarks
+ *
+ * Methods that accept parameters of this type throw an error if the specified value is neither a
+ * feature object nor a name or alias of a predefined feature, or if it is an array of values that
+ * does not define a union of mutually compatible features.
+ */
+export type FeatureElementOrCompatibleArray = FeatureElement | readonly FeatureElement[];
+
 export interface PredefinedFeature extends Feature
 {
     readonly name: PredefinedFeatureName;