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Problem

• In a .ts file, a ? () => (b as B) : d => e fails with Expected ":" but found ";". a ? (p): R => (b as B) : d => e prints a ? p : (R) => (b) => e with no error. tsc accepts both.
• parse_paren_expr (src/js_parser/parse/mod.rs:574) takes (...) : T => as an arrow function when the items convert to parameters. (b as B), (b!), (<B>b), (b<T>) and ((b)) convert: a cast leaves only the node of b. So does the (b) of <B[]>(b).

Fix

• The first read sets DeferredErrors::has_erased_syntax where it consumes a cast, !, type arguments or nested parentheses.
• parse_paren_expr reads it before it converts the items. A : is then not a return type, and async(b as B, ...c) keeps its spread.
• The operand of a <T> cast gets EFlags::TsCastOperand. tsc reads a unary expression there, so a : behind it is not a return type.
• Verified: test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js: the 9 new tests fail on main. One compares 1,316 inputs with typescript (main: 858 differ).

Background

• parse_paren_expr reads parentheses as expressions. It converts the items to parameters when => or a possible return type follows.
• DeferredErrors travels with an expression that can still become a pattern, through array and object literals.
• Weighed: a mark on the node (as leaves no node), and a second read of the parentheses as parameters (a third parameter reader).

Downsides

• Errors now, as in tsc: x = (b as B): T => c, a ? (b as B) : c => d : e, x = <B[]>(b): T => c. Main and esbuild 0.25.1 accept them.
• Not covered: (b as B) => c and <B[]>(b) => c stay arrow functions.
• Cost: a parenthesized expression takes 2 to 8 more instructions in .js and 11 to 31 in .ts (of 7,000 to 14,000). Nesting is 1.4% less deep in .js, 3.5% in .ts. .text +1,024 B.

Notes

Inputs

.ts input	main (7942008)	this PR	tsc 6.0.2
x = cond ? () => (dflt as Handler) : next => next;	Expected ":" but found ";"	x = cond ? () => dflt : (next) => next;	the same tree
x = a ? (p): R => (b as B) : d => e;	x = a ? p : (R) => (b) => e;, no error	x = a ? (p) => b : (d) => e;	the same tree
x = a ? async (): T => (b as B) : d => e;	x = a ? async() : (T) => (b) => e;, no error	x = a ? async () => b : (d) => e;	the same tree
x = y ? a ? (b as B) : c => d : e;	Expected ":" but found ";"	x = y ? a ? b : (c) => d : e;	the same tree
switch (x) { case (b!): d => e; }	Expected ":" but found ";"	case b: (d) => e;	the same tree
x = y ? a ? async(b as B, ...c) : d => e : f;	Expected ":" but found ";"	x = y ? a ? async(b, ...c) : (d) => e : f;	the same tree
x = a ? <T>(b as B) : c => d;	Expected ":" but found ";"	x = a ? b : (c) => d;	the same tree
switch (x) { case <B[]>(b): d => e; }	Expected ":" but found ";"	case b: (d) => e;	the same tree
x = a ? async (): T => <B[]>(b) : c => d;	x = a ? async() : (T) => (b) => d;, no error	x = a ? async () => b : (c) => d;	the same tree
x = a ? async() : c => <B[]>({ c }) : b => [c];	x = a ? async() : (c) => ({ c }) => [c];, no error	x = a ? async () => ({ c }) : (b) => [c];	the same tree
x = (b as B): T => c;	x = (b) => c;	Expected ";" but found ":"	';' expected.
x = <B[]>(b): T => c;	x = (b) => c;	Expected ";" but found ":"	';' expected.
x = a ? (b as B) : c => d : e;	x = a ? (b) => d : e;	Expected ";" but found ":"	';' expected.
x = (c, ...b!): T => d;	x = (c, ...b) => d;	Unexpected "..." at 1:9	Expression expected.

There is no user report. The shapes come from a review of a larger change for a ? b => (c) : d => e (found by a fuzz run), which follows in a later PR.

The record

A parameter of an arrow function is a name or a pattern, with an optional type and default value. (b as B), (b satisfies B), (b!), (<B>b), (<B>(b)), (b<T>), (b<<T>() => void>) and ((b)) are none of these. Each leaves the node of b, so convert_expr_to_binding accepts it. The parser now sets has_erased_syntax where it consumes the token:

• pfx_t_open_paren: nested parentheses.
• The TypeScript part of pfx_t_less_than: <T>x and <T>(x).
• sfx_handle_typescript_as: as and satisfies.
• sfx_t_exclamation: !.
• sfx_skip_type_arguments, shared by the < and << handlers: type arguments.

Array and object literals pass it upward like the other deferred errors, also when a = follows the literal. A default value is an expression of its own, so (b = c as C): T => d stays an arrow function.

parse_paren_expr reads the record in two places. At the entry of the arrow block, a : after such parentheses does not start the conversion to parameters. Inside the block, which <T,>( always enters, the : is not a return type. The function has five callers, so the rule holds after (, <T>(, async (, async <T>( and .tsx <T,>(.

The first read is at the entry because the conversion has side effects. It replaces a rest item by its value, so a call async(b as B, ...c) built after it has no spread. It also reports A rest argument cannot have a default initializer for case ([...b! = c]):.

The operand of a cast

The record covers a cast inside the parentheses. <B[]>(b) has its parentheses behind the cast. In tsc the operand of a cast is a unary expression, so it is never an arrow function. Bun read the operand with the level and flags of the cast, as esbuild does, so <B[]>(b) : c => d took (b): c => d as an arrow function with a return type.

The cast now reads its operand with EFlags::TsCastOperand. pfx_t_open_paren, async (, <T>( and async <T>( pass that on as ParenExprOpts::is_cast_operand, and the entry of the arrow block does not take a : for such parentheses. <B[]>(b) => c and <B[]>b => c stay arrow functions, as on main. tsc rejects them.

A legacy decorator keeps EFlags::TsDecorator through the cast. With experimentalDecorators, @<any>new Foo ['k']() {} stops before ['k'] through that flag. The first version of this rule replaced it, so ['k'] became an index of the decorator. A test holds three such lines.

An earlier version of this PR left the operand as it was, because the rule also rejects x = <ns.Handler>(req, res): void => {}, which main and esbuild accept and tsc rejects. The generated inputs below changed that. Of 150,000 .ts conditionals, 313 that tsc accepts printed another program through a cast operand, with no error, and 580 more failed. The table above has two of them.

The rest item error

x = (c, ...b!): T => d was an arrow function on main. It is now the error that x = (c, ...b) gives: Unexpected "...". That error passed type_colon_range, which is always empty there, so it had no line or column (-1:-1 from Bun.Transpiler). It passes spread_range now, as esbuild does.

Observable changes

Counted on 360,000 generated conditionals (300,000 .ts, 60,000 .tsx) with release builds of main (7942008) and this PR. tsc 6.0.2 accepts 206,076 of them.

• The same tree as tsc: 176,052 on main, 182,466 with this PR.
• tsc's tree now: 5,757 inputs that were errors, and 657 that printed another program with no error.
• An error now, tsc rejects too: 6,573. Each has a cast, !, type arguments or nested parentheses before a :, or a cast operand before it.
• Accepted now, tsc rejects: 717. Each has a cast next to a comma or in a literal, for example a ? () => (b, c as C) : d => e. tsc reads (b, c as C): d => e as an arrow function with four parameters and two missing commas.
• Another program than on main, tsc rejects: 63.
• An error now, tsc accepts: 0.
• 5 inputs that tsc accepts were errors and now print async(b) for async<T>(...b). That is the dropped spread that parser: keep async(...) a call before a : in TypeScript #45743 fixes.

With the js loader, the 300,000 .ts inputs give the same output or error message as before.

Of 10,261 more conditionals from a smaller grammar, tsc accepts 5,141. The same tree as tsc: 3,996 on main, 4,706 with this PR. The transpiled output of 3,904 TypeScript and 7,999 JavaScript files of this repo is the same.

Not in this PR

• A cast before =>. (b as B) => c, async (b as B) => c, <T,>(b as B) => c and <B[]>(b) => c are arrow functions, as on main and in esbuild. tsc rejects them. To reject them is to reject programs that every release accepts, so a maintainer should decide that. js_parser: report missing await, yield and binding pattern early errors #40821 and js_parser: reject parenthesized arrow parameters #41624 (open) reject nested parentheses before =>, not a cast.
• Other places that read the name an erased ! leaves behind: a label (a!: x prints the label a), the TypeScript statement keywords (type! A = number prints nothing), export default abstract! class C {}, and a class index signature (class C { [k!: string]: number } prints class C {}). tsc rejects these. Main and esbuild 0.25.1 accept them, and so does this PR.
• a ? b => (c) : d => e still fails. That needs the rule in arrow function bodies, a later PR.

esbuild

parse_paren_expr is a port of esbuild's parseParenExpr. esbuild 0.25.1 prints x = (b) => c; for x = (b as B): T => c; and x = a ? (b) => d : e; for x = a ? (b as B) : c => d : e;, as main does. For x = ((b)): T => c; it reports Invalid binding pattern, after it chose the arrow function. This PR is where the : check first differs from esbuild. A comment marks the line.

Measurements

Release builds of main (7942008) and this PR at 18dc18d, linux x64. The head adds one comparison on the cast path, for the decorator flag.

• Instructions inside one transformSync call, per statement of a file with 20 equal statements (single-stepped, JIT off, median of 3 runs).
  • JavaScript: x = (a); +2 of 6,829. x = (a) => a; 0. x = { a: (b), c: [d, (e)] }; +8. x = a ? (b) : (c); +4. Statements without parentheses: 0.
  • TypeScript: x = (a); +11 of 7,313. x = (a as T); +13. x = <T[]>(a); +10. x = (a: T): U => a; +11. x = a ? (b) : (c); +29. x = { a: (b), c: [d, (e)] }; +31. x = a ? b : c; -8. x = f<T>(a); -18.
  • The JavaScript cost is the position of a ..., which parse_paren_expr now keeps for the error, and one more byte of DeferredErrors to clear and to merge.
• Stack frames. DeferredErrors grows from 24 to 28 B. parse_prefix: 560 to 576 B in JavaScript and TypeScript. parse_paren_expr: 1,088 to 1,136 B in TypeScript, unchanged in JavaScript (448 B).
• The deepest ((((1)))) that parses: 7,440 to 7,335 in .js, 4,710 to 4,543 in .ts. At a 1 MB stack in .ts: 504 to 483.
• Nested 320 deep, a ? (b as B) : c => ... takes 1.0 ms and 33 MB (main: 24 ms, 85 MB). a ? (b) : c => ... : e takes 24 ms and 88 MB on both.
• .text 83,513,897 to 83,514,921 B. Parser symbols (nm -S): +880 B.

Checks

• With the debug build: test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js (267 pass), test/bundler/esbuild/ts.test.ts (59), test/cli/run/transpiler-cache.test.ts (24), test/bundler/transpiler/runtime-transpiler.test.ts (15), decorators.test.ts (25), decorator-metadata.test.ts (5), es-decorators.test.ts (427), scope-mismatch-panic.test.ts (21), test/bundler/bundler_regressions.test.ts (9). With release builds at 18dc18d: transpiler.test.js has 9 failing tests on main (the new ones) and 267 pass with this PR. The test for a legacy decorator behind a cast passes on main and fails at 18dc18d.
• The test with typescript as oracle is skipped on debug and ASAN builds: loading TypeScript takes them about a minute. It takes 1.2 s on a release build.

Self-review

A review of an earlier version of this diff raised 20 concerns for this part. 18 are addressed: the first read moved to the entry of the arrow block, the rest item error has a location, and the tests and this text cover the type parameter callers, rest items and the parts left out. Two are not:

• Read the record before => too. See "Not in this PR".
• A test that compares this parser with the parser of bun check on generated input. That is separate test work.

A review of the later change for arrow function bodies asked for the cast operand rule here. That change reversed three test lines of this PR, and without the rule it turns some inputs that main reads as tsc does into another program.

A second look at that rule found that it took the flag of a legacy decorator. That is corrected, see "The operand of a cast".

Related

• js_parser: reject parenthesized arrow parameters #41624 (open) records nested parentheses in DeferredErrors::invalid_paren and reads it at the same : entry. It also passes spread_range to Unexpected "...". If it merges first, this PR drops its write in pfx_t_open_paren and its range fix, and keeps the record for a cast, ! and type arguments.
• js_parser: report missing await, yield and binding pattern early errors #40821 and js_parser: reject a parenthesized assignment as a destructuring target #41697 (open) add fields to DeferredErrors for parentheses too. The PR that merges second joins the fields.
• parser: keep async(...) a call before a : in TypeScript #45743, parser: key the memo of the a ? (b) : c => d attempt by what the attempt reads #45939 and parser: an a ? (b) : c => d : e attempt inside another attempt keeps its arrow function #46311 (draft) change lines next to this check. parser: keep async(...) a call before a : in TypeScript #45743 and parser: key the memo of the a ? (b) : c => d attempt by what the attempt reads #45939 also set EXPECTED_VERSION to 44. The PR that merges later takes the next number.
• Hardening follow-up: fix regressions from #46021 and more crashes #46270 turned emitDecoratorMetadata off in the trial parse. Before that, a cast in parentheses before the : also gave a wrong design:type in the false branch. That is no longer part of this PR.

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Status

How to reproduce on main (7942008):

1. Write a.ts:

type Handler = (x: number) => number;
const dflt: unknown = (x: number) => x;
const cond = process.argv.length > 99;
const pick = cond ? () => (dflt as Handler) : next => next;
console.log(typeof pick, pick(1));

2. Run bun a.ts. Main fails with error: Expected ":" but found ";". This branch prints function 1.

The silent case: x = a ? (p): R => (b as B) : d => e prints x = a ? p : (R) => (b) => e; on main (bun build --no-bundle). This branch prints x = a ? (p) => b : (d) => e;.

The operand of a cast: x = a ? async (): T => <B[]>(b) : c => d prints x = a ? async() : (T) => (b) => d; on main. This branch prints x = a ? async () => b : (c) => d;.

The test: bun bd test test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js. The 9 new tests fail on main and pass on this branch (one is skipped on debug builds).

The branch has main merged in (7942008), one commit for the operand of a <T> cast, and one that keeps the flag of a legacy decorator behind such a cast (class C { @<any>new Foo ['k']() {} } with experimentalDecorators).

CI on the head 4f9a1ee (build 134372): 179 of 181 jobs passed, and no test of this change failed. The two darwin x64 - test-bun jobs never got an agent: they expired in the queue four times, and the build ended with them expired. A retry of these two jobs is all that the red check needs. Each test that failed on another lane passed on its retry, and none of them is a parser test.

No test of this change failed on any earlier run. Those runs failed outside it: a JPEG test of the SIMD baseline suite timed out on windows x64 - verify-baseline (builds 133452 and 134210), Windows test-bun steps lost their agent pipe before a test ran (build 134143), and a download timed out on darwin aarch64 (build 133535).

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Walkthrough

The parser tracks erased TypeScript syntax in deferred errors and uses that state when checking parenthesized expressions for arrow functions. Cast operands are also identified during parsing. Spread-related errors point to the spread. Transpiler tests and the cache version reflect these changes.

Changes

TypeScript Parenthesized Expression Parsing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track erased TypeScript syntax src/js_parser/parser.rs, src/ast/expr.rs, src/js_parser/parse/parse_prefix.rs, src/js_parser/parse/parse_suffix.rs	DeferredErrors now records and merges erased-syntax state. Prefix and suffix parsing marks or propagates that state for TypeScript constructs, including cast operands.
Use erased-syntax state in arrow detection src/js_parser/parse/mod.rs	Arrow-function checks account for erased syntax and cast operands. For a non-arrow expression with a spread, the reported range points to the spread.
Validate parsing and update cache version test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js, src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerCache.rs	Tests cover conditional expressions, parse errors, source locations, decorators, and comparisons with TypeScript. The transpiler cache version changes from 43 to 44.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#46553: Both PRs involve TypeScript decorator parsing around <T> cast operands.
• oven-sh/bun#45939: Both PRs change TypeScript speculative arrow detection at conditional-expression colons.
• oven-sh/bun#47139: Both PRs change parse_paren_expr behavior for parenthesized lists that can be mistaken for arrow parameters.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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A narrow TypeScript cast-before-arrow form is accepted and transpiled differently from TypeScript; fix the direct-arrow guard before merging.

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Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

• 🟣 src/js_parser/parse/mod.rs — pre-existing: in a .ts file, x = a ? async(b, ...c) : d still prints async(b, c) with no error, dropping the spread, when nothing in the parentheses sets is_not_binding. The arrow-parameter conversion at src/js_parser/parse/mod.rs:537-543 overwrites items[i] with the spread's inner value before the : decision is made, and the async call fallback at mod.rs:644 is then built from the mutated items. The same early conversion also logs A rest argument cannot have a default initializer eagerly (p.rs:4025). Fix: make the conversion side-effect free until the arrow decision is final, as esbuild does by converting a local copy rather than writing items[i], and defer that error into invalid_log.

  Why this was flagged

  A TypeScript source containing x = a ? async(b, ...c) : d reaches parse_paren_expr through parse_async_prefix_expr (src/js_parser/parse/mod.rs:1725) with is_async set. After ) the token is : and errors.is_not_binding is false, so the arrow block at mod.rs:519 is entered. The loop at mod.rs:537-543 assigns items[i] = inner for the ESpread item, discarding the spread node. is_type_script_arrow_return_type_after_question_and_before_colon returns false, the code falls to the is_async branch at mod.rs:631 and returns E::Call with args built from the mutated items at mod.rs:644. The user gets x = a ? async(b, c) : d emitted silently instead of a spread call; the base branch does the same, and this PR only avoids it when is_not_binding is set. The sibling side effect is convert_expr_to_binding_and_initializer at src/js_parser/p.rs:4025 logging A rest argument cannot have a default initializer straight to p.log() during this speculative conversion, so switch (x) { case ([...b = c]): f(); } and x = a ? async(...b = c) : d are rejected although they are valid expressions.

  Verification: pre-existing (the base commit has the identical mutation at the same line). For x = a ? async(b, ...c) : d in a .ts source, lines 539-543 of src/js_parser/parse/mod.rs mutate the shared slice in place: items[i] = inner;. The opts.is_async branch (lines 631-648) builds E::Call from the already-mutated items, so the output is async(b, c) with no error.

• 🟣 src/js_parser/parse/parse_prefix.rs — TypeScript users still get a syntax error or a silently wrong program when the operand of an old-style cast is parenthesized before a :. switch (x) { case <B[]>(b): d => e; } fails with Expected ":" but found ";", and x = <B[]>(b): T => c prints x = (b) => c with no error. The <T>x branch at src/js_parser/parse/parse_prefix.rs:1007 recurses into parse_prefix, so the operand's parse_paren_expr starts with a fresh DeferredErrors and never learns it is a cast operand. Fix: mark the operand parentheses as not-a-binding at both cast sites (parse_prefix.rs:991 and the recursion at 1007), e.g. via a ParenExprOpts flag, so the : gate at mod.rs:521 covers <B[]>(b) like it covers (<B>b). [also at: src/js_parser/parse/parse_prefix.rs:999 - Pre-existing: a .ts conditional whose true branch is a plain <T>(b) cast, like x = a ? <T>(b) : c => d;, still fails with Expected ":" but found ";" although tsc accepts it.]

  Why this was flagged

  Input in a .ts file: switch (x) { case <B[]>(b): d => e; } or x = <B[]>(b): T => c, reached through pfx_t_less_than when try_skip_type_script_type_parameters_then_open_paren_with_backtracking returns DidNotSkipAnything (src/js_parser/parse/parse_prefix.rs:988). The code skips the type and calls parse_prefix at parse_prefix.rs:1007; the outer errors is None at statement level, so pfx_t_open_paren (parse_prefix.rs:72) has nothing to flag and parse_paren_expr builds a fresh DeferredErrors at mod.rs:430. At mod.rs:521 is_not_binding is false, so : d => is probed as a return type and (b) => e becomes an arrow; the case label then hits ; and reports Expected ":" but found ";". tsc accepts the switch form and rejects x = <B[]>(b): T => c with ';' expected. The PR fixes the sibling (<B>b) and pins this behaviour at test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js:584-586 instead of fixing it. Remedy: pass an is-cast-operand marker to parse_paren_expr from both the 991 call and the 1007 recursion.

  Verification: Pre-existing. In src/js_parser/parse/parse_prefix.rs the code skips the type and calls p.parse_prefix(level, errors, flags) at line 1007. parse_paren_expr builds a fresh DeferredErrors::default() at src/js_parser/parse/mod.rs:430, so errors.is_not_binding is false at mod.rs:521 and the : after (b) is taken as an arrow return type. The base commit's parse_prefix.rs:960-985 has the identical flow.

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- Line 616: Replace the parameterized `it.each(cases)` in the spread-error test
with `describe.each(cases)`, and place the existing assertion in an `it` within
each case’s describe block. Preserve the current case labels and test behavior.

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[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked the new EFlags::TsCastOperand recursion at src/js_parser/parse/parse_prefix.rs:1009, which replaces the caller's flags for the cast operand: only the prefix-level readers (pfx_t_open_paren and the async (/async <T>( paths) see the swap, while parse_suffix still receives the outer flags, so the TsDecorator index guard and the ?: nesting logic are unaffected. The new has_erased_syntax field is carried through merge_into and both literal will_need_binding_pattern branches, and every setter and reader is IS_TYPESCRIPT_ENABLED-gated, so the js loader path does not change.

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The PR adds a has_erased_syntax flag to DeferredErrors and an is_cast_operand/EFlags::TsCastOperand pair so that parse_paren_expr no longer treats a : after (b as B), (b!), (<T>b), (b<T>) or ((b)) as an arrow return type, bumps the transpiler cache version to 44, and adds matrix and oracle tests. It touches no security-sensitive surface. The one confirmed finding is pre-existing and is posted inline; this note records what else was examined on the latest push.

[claude]

I re-reviewed the latest push and found no bugs; because the parser now knowingly departs from esbuild (parse_paren_expr comment says so) and newly rejects inputs main accepted ((b as B): T => c), a maintainer should still sign off on that trade-off.

What was reviewed since the last push:

• The decorator fix in pfx_t_less_than: replacing the operand flag with TsCastOperand clobbered TsDecorator; I checked the only other flag consumer, AfterQuestionAndBeforeColon (three sites), and losing it on a cast operand is safe because is_cast_operand blocks the : branch outright and the operand's suffix loop still runs with the caller's flags.
• EFlags has no exhaustive matches, so the new variant breaks no switch; DeferredErrors::merge_into and both literal prefix parsers propagate has_erased_syntax; non-TS loaders never read the flag.
• The typescript-oracle test is gated on isDebug || isASAN and typescript is pinned in test/package.json.

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The change touches the Rust TypeScript expression parser (parse_paren_expr, prefix/suffix handlers for casts, non-null, type arguments and nested parens), adds a DeferredErrors field and an EFlags variant, bumps the transpiler cache version, and adds a large transpiler test table; it touches no security-sensitive surface. Since my last review the author pushed a fix that preserves TsDecorator behind a <T> cast, which I traced and found correct, and I found no other flag consumer the override could clobber. I did not approve because the fix intentionally deviates from the esbuild reference and rejects previously accepted (tsc-invalid) programs, a semantics decision a maintainer should weigh, and because prior inline threads were resolved by the author only.

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Minor · Exclude cast operands from direct-arrow detection. · mod.rs:516-524

src/js_parser/parse/mod.rs:516-524
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Exclude cast operands from direct-arrow detection.

When <B[]>(b) reaches parse_paren_expr, opts.is_cast_operand is true, but the direct => check ignores it. Bun therefore accepts x = <B[]>(b) => c and emits x = (b) => c;, although the parser documents this spelling as a syntax error and the test notes that TypeScript reports an error.

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-        let mut is_arrow_fn = p.lexer.token == T::TEqualsGreaterThan;
+        let mut is_arrow_fn =
+            p.lexer.token == T::TEqualsGreaterThan && !opts.is_cast_operand;

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Review comment at @src/js_parser/parse/mod.rs around lines 516 - 524:
Update the direct-arrow detection in parse_paren_expr so a following `=>` is
recognized as an arrow function only when opts.is_cast_operand is false.
Preserve the existing handling of forced arrow functions and TypeScript
return-type detection.

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Review comments at @src/js_parser/parse/mod.rs:
- Around line 516-524: Update the direct-arrow detection in parse_paren_expr so
a following `=>` is recognized as an arrow function only when
opts.is_cast_operand is false. Preserve the existing handling of forced arrow
functions and TypeScript return-type detection.

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[robobun]

@coderabbitai This reading is on purpose. No change.

• The comment block in pfx_t_less_than that lists "A syntax error" describes .tsx, where <A[]>(x) starts a JSX element. It does not cover <B[]>(b) => c in a .ts file.
• No program that tsc accepts has a => behind the operand of a cast. So the reading of main changes no valid program there. A : is different: it can follow an expression, and main read input that tsc accepts as another program. That is why this PR changes the : only.
• The guard makes x = <ns.Handler>(req, res) => {} an error. Bun 1.4.4 and esbuild accept it and print x = (req, res) => {};. To reject it is a breaking change for a maintainer to decide. The body names it under Downsides and under "Not in this PR", and transpiler.test.js pins the three lines below "before => it is read as it was".

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@robobun Understood. I withdraw the proposed guard.

The “A syntax error” examples in pfx_t_less_than are under the TSX section. I incorrectly applied them to .ts cast operands.

The tests in test/bundler/transpiler/transpiler.test.js, starting at Line 598, explicitly preserve the existing parsing before =>. Extending the guard to => would change that compatibility behavior. This PR fixes the : ambiguity without making that separate breaking change. No change is needed for this finding.

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