microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript
Support safe index access for noImplicitAny
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Description
It is hard to use noImplicitAny without enabling suppressImplicitAnyIndexErrors on the current TypeScript.
Search Terms
noImplicitAny suppressImplicitAnyIndexErrors
Suggestion
Provide safe indexes without explicit type declarations to avoid unsafe index access errors.
Use Cases
- for-in
- Object.keys
Examples
const o = {};
for (const key in o) {
o[key]; // Should be no error.
}
for (const key of Object.keys(o)) {
o[key]; // Should be no error.
}
Checklist
My suggestion meets these guidelines:
- This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code (for-in only)
- 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.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the noImplicitAny and suppressImplicitAnyIndexErrors behavior described in the issue, along with the for-in and Object.keys examples. Done means the shown indexed accesses are accepted safely without explicit type declarations, while preserving the stated runtime and JavaScript compatibility constraints.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100