microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript
Double error message when referencing variable of type union of string literals from ambient declaration
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Description
### 🔎 Search Terms
double error, same message twice, ambient declaration, string literal union
### 🕗 Version & Regression Information
This changed between versions 3.9.7 and 4.0.5
### ⏯ Playground Link
https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?ts=5.9.3#code/CYUwxgNghgTiAEYD2A7AzgF3gDwFzwCIoD4AfQgIwIChrl0sBPfFAVwFsKQZ4BeHIA
### 💻 Code
```ts
declare const x: "a" | "b"
const y: number = x
// ~
// Type 'string' is not assignable to type 'number'.
// Type 'string' is not assignable to type 'number'. (2322)
```
### 🙁 Actual behavior
You see same error message twice
### 🙂 Expected behavior
The error message should be the one in 3.9.7 ie...
```
Type '"a" | "b"' is not assignable to type 'number'.
Type '"a"' is not assignable to type 'number'. (2322)
```
Or the following message just once also works...
```
Type 'string' is not assignable to type 'number'. (2322)
```
### Additional information about the issue
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Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the provided TypeScript Playground reproduction and compare its diagnostic with the stated 3.9.7 and 4.0.5 behavior. Trace the compiler's type-checking diagnostic path for assigning the ambient string-literal union to number; done means the duplicate message is removed and the diagnostic matches one of the expected forms.
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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
- 45/100