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Forgetting to implement Symbol.dispose in TypeScript

TypeScriptModern ES Featuresusing & Symbol.disposeadvanced

What this snippet does

Objects passed to 'using' must implement either Symbol.dispose or Symbol.asyncDispose, or TypeScript will throw a compile error.

Expected output

Compile Error: Type 'NoDispose' is not assignable to type 'Disposable'.

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