microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript

Assigning window.location after 5.8.2 upgrade fails

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Description

### 🔎 Search Terms

Unable to assign window.location typescript 5.8.2
error TS2322: Type 'Location' is not assignable to type 'string & Location'.
Type 'Location' is not assignable to type 'string'.

### 🕗 Version & Regression Information

- This changed between versions 5.7.3 and 5.8.2

### ⏯ Playground Link

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?ts=5.8.2#code/O4SwdgJg9sB0A2UDGBDALiKYAEBebokMCy6mYA3AFBA

### 💻 Code

```ts
window.location = window.location;
```

### 🙁 Actual behavior

Failing with error:

```
error TS2322: Type 'Location' is not assignable to type 'string & Location'.
Type 'Location' is not assignable to type 'string'.
```

### 🙂 Expected behavior

Expect it to either be a documented breaking change, OR it should continue to work as it did in 5.7.3:

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?ts=5.7.3#code/O4SwdgJg9sB0A2UDGBDALiKYAEBebokMCy6mYA3AFBA

### Additional information about the issue

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