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Improve TS type narrowing

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Aperta il 13 mag 2026

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In the following issue, the example are made with a simple Option(a) in Gleam.

When using an Option(a) to TS, we know for sure that the expected type is Option$, so we can type functions signatures as (value: $option.Option$<EL>) => ..... When using the new API, "pattern matching" is defined as $option.Option$isSome(value)). The type narrowing works, but will refine value from Option$<EL> to Option$<unknown>, because isSome is defined as export function Option$isSome<EL>(value: any): value is Option$<unknown>;.

Thanks to TS and function overloading, we could do way better, and keep the generic type, while narrowing to the correct type. We could write an overload export function Option$isSome<EL>(value: Option$<EL>): value is Some<EL>. That way, it would keep the generic.

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