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Mutating a Readonly type via aliasing in TypeScript

TypeScriptUtility TypesReadonlyintermediate

What this snippet does

Readonly is a compile-time construct; if the underlying object is mutable, runtime aliasing bypasses the type checker.

Expected output

Compile Error: Cannot assign to 'x' because it is a read-only property.

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