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Immediate circular self-reference causing error in TypeScript

TypeScriptType System LimitsCircular Typesadvanced

What this snippet does

An immediate circular alias without any structure causes a compiler error because the type cannot be resolved.

Expected output

Compile Error: Type alias 'T' circularly references itself.

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