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4.7 regression: Array.flat(infinity) leads to "Type instantiation is excessively deep and possibly infinite." error

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#49.280 aberto em 27 de mai. de 2022

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Description

Bug Report

🔎 Search Terms

  • Array.flat
  • Type instantiation is excessively deep and possibly infinite.
  • Nested arrays

🕗 Version & Regression Information

  • This changed between versions 4.6 and 4.7

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💻 Code

interface Config {
  prop?: string;
}

interface ExtendedConfig extends Config {}

type NestedConfigs = Array<ExtendedConfig | NestedConfigs>;

const configs: NestedConfigs[] = [];

const flattened = configs.flat(Infinity);

🙁 Actual behavior

TypeScript raises the following error for the configs.flat(Infinity) call:

Type instantiation is excessively deep and possibly infinite. ts(2589)

🙂 Expected behavior

No error should be raised.

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