Microsoft/TypeScript

Flag boolean in comparison operator operands as errors

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#15,506 opened on May 1, 2017

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From https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/15444#issuecomment-298055832

var x: boolean, y: boolean;
if (x > y) {  // suspicious!
}

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Understand the TypeScript compiler's type checking and AST traversal to add a new diagnostic when comparing booleans with relational operators.
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typescript
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