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Contextual typing failure with union types in TypeScript

TypeScriptContextual TypingFunction Contextadvanced

What this snippet does

When the contextual type is a union of function types, TypeScript cannot contextually type the parameter, requiring explicit annotation.

Expected output

Compile Error: Parameter 'x' implicitly has an 'any' type.

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