Support bigint literals in const enums

Search Terms

• "const enum member initializers can only contain literal values"
• "bigint enum"
• "ts(2474)"

Suggestion

A bigint literal is a literal, but it does not seem usable in const enums.

const enum Foo {
  Bar = 123n
}

Currently produces, on 3.9.0-beta:

const enum member initializers can only contain literal values and other computed enum values. ts(2474)

Use Cases

Bigint compile-time constants 🙂

Examples

const enum Foo {
  Bar = 123n
}

console.log(Foo.Bar);

Should compile to

console.log(123n);

And log 123n when run.

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.

La issue no especifica archivos ni pruebas. Empieza por localizar la validación de inicializadores de const enum y el manejo relacionado de literales bigint en el compilador de TypeScript. Se considera terminado cuando el const enum mostrado compila, emite console.log(123n) y registra 123n sin introducir regresiones en los diagnósticos existentes de enum.