diff --git a/typescript.html.markdown b/typescript.html.markdown index 24d1db10..d351615b 100644 --- a/typescript.html.markdown +++ b/typescript.html.markdown @@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ let notSure: any = 4; notSure = "maybe a string instead"; notSure = false; // okay, definitely a boolean +// When we are not sure about the type, and don't want to use "any", we can use "unknown" type +let unknownVariable: unknown = 'Some string'; // we don't fully know yet the type +unknownVariable = 2; // possible +const someVariable: string = unknownVariable; // Invalid; we can't assign unknownVariable to any other type (without an explicit assertion), unlike any + // Use const keyword for constants const numLivesForCat = 9; numLivesForCat = 1; // Error