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Assigning an invalid literal to a union in TypeScript

TypeScriptUnion and Intersection TypesLiteral Typesbeginner

What this snippet does

Any value outside the specified literal set will trigger a compile error.

Expected output

Compile Error: Type '"up"' is not assignable to type '"left" | "right"'.

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