`readonly` mapped type modifiers for `Map` / `ReadonlyMap`

Search Terms

ReadonlyMap
ReadWrite
Writable

Suggestion

3.4.0-rc introduced the ability to use readonly mapped type modifiers with arrays.

(https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-3-4-rc/)

It would be useful if the same syntax worked on

Use Cases

This is useful in any library dealing with immutable versions of types. It would allow mapped types to easily convert between Map and ReadonlyMap.

Examples

type ReadWrite<T> = { -readonly [P in keyof T]: T[P] };
const map: ReadWrite<ReadonlyMap<string, string>> = new Map();

map.put('a', 'c'); // this should work, since readonly has been removed.

type Readonly<T> = { readonly [P in keyof T]: T[P] };
const map: Readonly<Map<string, string>> = new Map();

map.put('a', 'c'); // this should not work, since readonly has been applied

Similar examples using Array instead of Map didn't work before 3.4 and did work afterwards.

Checklist

My suggestion meets these guidelines:

• This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code
• This wouldn't change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
• This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of the expressions
• This isn't a runtime feature (e.g. library functionality, non-ECMAScript syntax with JavaScript output, etc.)
• This feature would agree with the rest of TypeScript's Design Goals.

まず、issue にある ReadWrite と Readonly の mapped-type の例を再現し、その動作を TypeScript 3.4 で導入された Array の動作と比較します。必要な設計を決定するため、コンパイラの mapped-type 処理を追跡します。Map/ReadonlyMap の例が仕様どおりに動作し、出力される JavaScript を変更しない状態になれば完了です。