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by ihsw 3614 days ago
Exactly. Leaving off the return type annotation is just asking for trouble, and this example proves it.

And the actual type of the const won't be `string | number` -- it will be `any`.

MaulingMonkey[1] has the right idea, though.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12192240