One interesting syntactical feature of C# is the ability to pass in a "method group" to a function expecting a delegate type, like this:
"string".Count (Char.IsWhiteSpace);
This is much cleaner compared to using an anonymous function:
"string".Count (c => Char.IsWhiteSpace (c));
In Javascript, the syntax for anonymous functions can be quite noisy. I would like to achieve a similar simplicity for anonymous functions in Javascript:
var name = "foobar".replace (/^\w/, function (c) { return c.toUpperCase (); });
I have experimented with different approaches using call and apply on the functional form of String.prototype.replace, but it seems that the string argument passed in (c in the example) is not correctly used as this within toUpperCase.
Although I can wrap the function as I did before, I am curious if there is a way to achieve method group application or properly invoke the function on matched characters without encountering errors.