TypeScript conformance: strict defaults, TS2454, and using declarations

[nooga]

Raises TypeScript conformance from 3,197 to 3,470 of 4,933 (64.8% → 70.3%) against TypeScript v6.0.3, and adds 22 Test262 language passes.

The conformance checkout was six months stale on main; it is now pinned to release tag v6.0.3, which is what surfaced the first item below.

paserati-testtsc: match TS 6.0 strict defaults

TS 6.0 made strict the default and regenerated its conformance baselines to match, so tests with no // @strict directive now expect TS2564 and TS2454. The runner still defaulted those gates off, which cost ~146 tests and read as a Paserati regression rather than a harness default. Multi-value directives (// @strict: true, false) now resolve to the variant the selected baseline actually carries.

TS2454 definite assignment analysis

New pkg/checker/definite_assignment.go: a forward dataflow walk per function scope. Conditionals merge by intersection, with a terminating arm letting the other decide alone; short-circuiting operators treat their right side as maybe-not-run; loops read pre-loop state. Where flow is not modelled precisely — loops, try/catch, switch, class static blocks — every syntactic write inside is unioned in afterwards, so an unmodelled path can only silence a diagnostic, never invent one. Candidates touched from a nested function are dropped, as are vars merging with a pre-existing global.

Also adds the let x!: T assertion to the parser, which meant consolidating six copies of the declarator annotation parsing into parseDeclaratorAnnotation.

+101 conformance tests, zero new failures across the suite.

using / await using declarations

Explicit resource management (ES2026), as a contextual keyword at statement position and in both for-head forms. Blocks containing using are rewritten into try/finally after type checking, so disposal reuses the existing abrupt-completion paths rather than adding a new unwinding mechanism. Reverse-order disposal, per-iteration disposal in for-of, loop-lifetime disposal in for (using x = e;;), null/undefined as no-ops, and a spec TypeError when a resource has no dispose method. Adds Symbol.asyncDispose.

usingDeclarations 43 → 63; Test262 language/statements +10.

Two things worth a look

• Seven smoke tests changed. They used the let x: T;-then-read idiom TS2454 rejects. I ran each through real tsc (lib/tsc.js --strict) first — it reports all of them and more — then added !, which preserves each test's subject and changes no runtime behaviour.
• One conformance test regressed, expressions/functionCalls/typeArgumentInferenceWithObjectLiteral.ts. Bisected to adding asyncDispose to the Symbol constructor type. It was only passing because we emit a spurious error on line 31 unrelated to the TS2345 its baseline expects. Symbol.asyncDispose is real ES2026 and belongs there; the spurious error is a separate pre-existing bug.

Known gap

using at the top level of a module still fails when exports follow it (3 tests): the lowering moves later statements into the try block, putting exported bindings out of module scope. It surfaces as a compile error rather than silent mis-scoping, and is not a regression — using did not parse at all before. A proper fix needs declaration hoisting in the lowering.

Verification

go test ./tests -run TestScripts and go test ./pkg/... green. Test262 language diffs +22 / -0 against baseline. New smoke tests cover definite assignment (positive and negative), using disposal semantics, and the for-head lookahead.

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[nooga]

Review: solid compliance gains, but several confirmed correctness bugs before merge

Verified locally: full local TypeScript-conformance diff vs main is +291 net (327 new passes, 36 new failures), Test262 language is +10 / 0 regressions, and using/await using core disposal order (LIFO) and basic TS2454 cases work correctly. But the following are independently reproduced bugs, not style nits — recommend fixing before merge.

Confirmed bugs

1. TS2454 false negative via object-literal shorthand methods. The analysis doesn't treat a shorthand method as a deferred-execution scope, so an assignment inside a method body is treated as always-executed in the enclosing scope:

   let x: number;
   const obj = { m() { x = 5; } };
   console.log(x + 1); // compiles clean, prints NaN at runtime

2. for (using x of xs) skips the disposability guard. A non-disposable per-iteration value runs the loop body first, then throws the wrong error:

   for (using x of [1, 2, 3]) { console.log(x); }
   // prints "1", THEN throws "TypeError: undefined is not a function"
   // should throw "TypeError: Object is not disposable." before any iteration

3. TS1263 isn't enforced. ! combined with an initializer should be a compile error and isn't:

   const x!: number = 5; console.log(x); // compiles, prints 5

4. Flow-narrowing overlay is keyed only by variable name, not by scope, so a shadowed variable in an inner block corrupts an outer variable's narrowed type:

   function outer() {
     let y = "a";
     { let y = "b"; y = "c"; }
     let z: "a" = y; // false-positive TS2322 — outer y was never reassigned
   }

5. TS2454 doesn't model switch fallthrough — evaluates each case independently from pre-switch state:

   function f(x: number) {
     let y: number;
     switch (x) {
       case 1: y = 1;
       case 2: console.log(y); break; // false-positive TS2454; real tsc accepts this
       default: y = 0;
     }
   }

6. Contextual keywords can't be used as using binding names, though TypeScript allows it:

   using as = { [Symbol.dispose]() {} }; // PS1003, fails to parse

Noted, not blocking on this PR

• await using can lose a promise rejection when the synthesized finally awaits during an active throw. Checked whether this is new: it isn't — async function f(){ try { throw new Error("boom") } finally { await Promise.resolve() } } f().then(...) already exhibits the same symptom on main today (neither callback fires; the runtime dumps the raw error object). This is a pre-existing try/finally+await bug that using's lowering strategy inherits, not something introduced here — filing separately rather than folding an unrelated engine bug into this PR.
• SuppressedError is entirely unimplemented (0/22 in Test262 built-ins/SuppressedError). With two disposals that both throw plus a throwing block body, only the last error survives — the original body error and the first disposal error are silently discarded. This is the mechanism the spec added specifically to prevent that. Given the commit's own description ("blocks containing using are rewritten into the equivalent try/finally") — that's the same shape SuppressedError exists to fix, so this is a real gap, not a nit. Recommend scoping this as a separate follow-up (new builtin: constructor, prototype, error/suppressed properties, realm + type wiring, ~22 Test262 tests) rather than growing this already-3,945-line PR further — but at minimum this PR should land a test pinning the current (lossy) disposal-error behavior so the gap is documented rather than silent.

Merge mechanics

• Onto current main this isn't a clean rebase: PR47 independently added union-of-object-types destructuring support in the same function PR14 (already merged) touched. Needs deliberate reconciliation — PR14's destructureType annotation-priority logic has to apply to PR47's new union branch too, not just the object/array branches, or the annotation-ignored bug PR14 fixed comes back for union-typed destructuring initializers.
• PR47 also supersedes PR14's ad-hoc destructuring-assignability error wording with real TS2322 wording, which breaks tests/scripts/ts_destructuring_annotation_non_literal.ts's hardcoded expected substring (the check itself still fires correctly — just needs the test's expected string updated as part of this rebase).

Working on fixes for items 1–6 now.

[nooga]

Correction to finding #1 (TS2454 shorthand-method false negative)

On investigation this is not a shorthand-method-specific gap, and I'm not fixing it as filed. Tracing it down:

• Object-literal shorthand methods parse into MethodDefinition{Value: *FunctionLiteral}, not *parser.ShorthandMethod. ShorthandMethod's only constructor (transformShorthandMethodWithDestructuring) has no call site anywhere in the codebase — it's dead code for this syntax (worth a separate cleanup pass, unrelated to this PR).
• MethodDefinition.Value being a plain *FunctionLiteral means the definite-assignment analysis's existing nestedFunctionBody recognition and the walk() exclusion already treat a shorthand method's body as a nested scope, the same as a function/arrow expression's body — there was never a missing case to add.
• Confirmed with a controlled A/B: I patched ShorthandMethod into both call sites, built two binaries from git-stashed before/after state, and ran the original repro against both. Identical output on both — the patch was a no-op, which is exactly what you'd expect if the real node type was already handled.
• The "compiles clean, prints NaN" symptom reproduces identically for a plain arrow function (const f = () => { x = 5; }) on unmodified main too. It's the module's own documented, intentional behavior (definite_assignment.go's header: "Candidates touched from a nested function are dropped entirely, since their flow is unknowable here") applied uniformly across every closure form — not something PR47 introduced or something specific to methods.

Net: not a bug to fix here. If you want TS2454 to track whether a stored closure has actually run before a later read (which real tsc does more precisely), that's a real feature gap, but it's a redesign of the whole nested-closure-disqualification strategy, not a targeted fix — worth its own issue if you want it, separate from this PR.

Continuing with the remaining confirmed findings (switch fallthrough, flow-narrowing scope corruption).

[nooga]

Correction to finding #4 (flow-narrowing overlay scope corruption)

Same pattern as finding #1 — also not fixing this one, and also not a real bug given how the analysis is actually wired up.

The repro claims the bug is shadowing-specific:

function outer() {
  let y = "a";
  { let y = "b"; y = "c"; }
  let z: "a" = y; // claimed: false-positive TS2322
}

Isolating test — same shape, no shadowing at all, just an unrelated empty block:

function outer() {
  let y = "a";
  { console.log("hi"); }
  let z: "a" = y; // also errors, identically
}

Both produce the exact same TS2322. That rules out shadowing/scope-crossing as the cause: it's checker.go's block-statement handling. Every block (bare {}, if/for/while body, function body) gets its own fresh flowNarrowState, and — this is the load-bearing part — the enclosing sequence's loop invalidates its own overlay entries for any statement that isn't a plain let/const/var/expression-statement (the default: branch), and a block/if/for/function statement is never one of those. So the outer scope's narrowing for y is already gone before the nested block even runs, shadowing or not. This is flow_narrowing.go's own documented, intentional design ("any other statement... invalidates everything tracked so far") — not a corruption bug, and not reachable through the current caller structure regardless of same-name shadowing.

Net: this is pre-existing, documented conservatism (paserati doesn't attempt to track narrowing across any nested block, matching its stated non-goal of full control-flow analysis), not something PR47 introduced or something actionable as a targeted fix here. Not touching it.

That leaves 4 of the original 6 confirmed bugs fixed and landed (the for (using x of xs) disposability guard, the contextual-keyword using binding names, TS1263, and TS2454's switch-fallthrough false positive) — commits incoming on the branch.