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In a class, an unique symbol attribute is sometime lost during incremental build
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Description
### 🔎 Search Terms
- unique property
- incremental build
- interface declaration merging
### 🕗 Version & Regression Information
- Tested with 6.0.2 and 6.0.3
### ⏯ Playground Link
[Playground Link](https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?ts=6.0.0-dev.20260416#code/MYewdgzgLgBAygTQLICEDyAZAXDArmASwEdcBTGCATwFsAjEAGxgF54b6GAKASgG4AofsAYBDCBBgANGAG9BMBTAAOAJxBRSwDQBMYIqFBUsYAIhABrEwP6KYK0iO3gGlGAG1EqTAF1jZy9a2quqaOjAAZiAgPLI2tooA9Al4EOQEUHHxMFAAFgQQHsjoGN4CtgC+-JX8UJRK5AAqADwAcjCkAB4aYNoS0CoEYADmAHzGAEqaICraTQAGjtoAJDIt5XMANDAxzGMAbiAE2iPWgxoq4SLA5NKd3b0wzSY5IMAmYzLVoJCwHcafegkkgEHQAdIsXsAgA)
### 💻 Code
I do not have a minimal reproductible exemple as the issue seems to come from the incremental build.
I had a class with an unique symbol property, on which I was doing interface declaration merging:
```ts
const SYMBOL: unique symbol = Symbol();
class X {
protected attr = "ok";
readonly [SYMBOL] = "ok";
protected foo() {
// use it
this[SYMBOL];
}
}
type T = Record<`add${N}`, () => void>;
interface X extends T<"hoc"> {}
const x = {} as X;
x.addhoc
```
### 🙁 Actual behavior
The following error first appeared when I set some of the public attributes as protected (the error below is edited to match the provided exemple) :
```
ERROR in [...]
TS7053: Element implicitly has an 'any' type because expression of type 'unique symbol' can't be used to index type 'X'.
Property '[????.SYMBOL]' does not exist on type 'X'.
92 |
93 | protected foo() {
> 94 | this[SYMBOL];
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
95 | }
```
I noticed that :
- The error disappear if I delete all of TS cache files.
- The error reappear if I rebuild without any changes to the files.
- The error reappear if I edit the files that defines `X`.
- The error does not reappear if I change other files.
- In watch mode, the error sometimes disappear and reappear when I change the files that defines `X`.
- The error doesn't appear in my VSC editor.
### 🙂 Expected behavior
No TS errors.
### Additional information about the issue
I also reproduced the error with `tsc --noEmit`, so it doesn't seem to come from my Webpack build system.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the linked Playground example and reproduce it using tsc --noEmit, then compare clean and incremental builds while changing the files that define X. Inspect how incremental cache state handles the unique symbol property and declaration merging; done means repeated rebuilds no longer produce TS7053 for this access.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- build-system, compilers
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100