microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript

Omitting a property from tuple breaks destruction

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Description

Bug Report

🔎 Search Terms

tuple omit property
Searched in Bing and Github issues but I found nothing

🕗 Version & Regression Information
  • This is the behavior in every version I tried
⏯ Playground Link

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💻 Code
const foo = [1, "2"] as const
const [a, b] = foo // everything works well, a is number and b is string

const bar = [1, "2"] as Omit<[number, string], "at">
const [c, d] = bar // Oops! c and d are string | number now
🙁 Actual behavior


c and d are both string | number

🙂 Expected behavior

a and b should have correct type

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Research direction

Start with the linked TypeScript Playground reproduction and inspect how the tuple type produced by Omit<[number, string], "at"> is handled during array destructuring. The fix is complete when destructuring that value infers c as number and d as string, matching the expected behavior shown in the issue.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
compilers
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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