microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript
Parser misinterprets async() calls in conditional expressions as async arrow functions
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Description
### 🔎 Search Terms
parser, async, conditional
### 🕗 Version & Regression Information
- This is the behavior in every version I tried
### ⏯ Playground Link
_No response_
### 💻 Code
```ts
const a = true;
const b = 1;
function async(): number {
return b;
}
const first = a ? async() : 0;
// TS1005: '=>' expected.
const second = a ? async() : x => x;
// TS1005: ':' expected.
```
### 🙁 Actual behavior
The parser appears to interpret async() as the beginning of an async arrow function and the conditional separator as a return-type annotation.
The first case also produces a syntax diagnostic when parsed as JavaScript after removing the : number annotation. Node accepts and executes that JavaScript equivalent
### 🙂 Expected behavior
Both conditional expressions should parse successfully. async() is a call to the function named async, and the following colon separates the conditional’s branches.
### Additional information about the issue
Oxc fix: https://github.com/oxc-project/oxc/pull/26537
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the two conditional-expression examples in the TypeScript parser and compare how async() is classified against an async arrow function. Use the linked Oxc fix as a reference for the relevant parsing behavior. Done means both examples parse successfully without the reported diagnostics, with regression coverage for the cases shown.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, typescript
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100