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Preventing distribution with tuple wrapping in TypeScript

TypeScriptConditional TypesDistributive Conditional Typesintermediate

What this snippet does

Wrapping types in tuples prevents distribution, resulting in a single array of the union type rather than a union of arrays.

Expected output

[ 'a', 1 ]

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