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Passing a primitive to a constrained object generic in TypeScript

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What this snippet does

Even though primitives have methods, they are not considered objects structurally in this context, failing the constraint.

Expected output

Compile Error: Argument of type 'number' is not assignable to parameter of type 'object'.

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