What? It's no different than saying which inputs are passed to a function. Also, languages with macros can add some nice syntactical sugar on top. JavaScript, of course, doesn't have a macro system so there's not much we can do there in that regard.

> It's no different than saying which inputs are passed to a function.

In that case, why isn't it just (more or less) equal in syntax to a function call?

Why do I need to build a graph, where a functional language would just let me build it implicitly.