Symbol type about runtypes

[pelotom]

Ah, looks like Symbol is treated as a special case (which isn't too surprising). A custom runtype for Symbol is probably in order.

[pelotom]

Is there any way to "merge" the original methods into custom runtype? Is it possible?

I'm not thrilled about that idea... the runtype object serves a very different purpose and shouldn't be conflated. Using import * as rt for example is the right way to disambiguate where needed.

[pelotom]

Would InstanceOf(Symbol) do the job?

[yuhr]

TS says:

Argument of type 'SymbolConstructor' is not assignable to parameter of type 'Constructor<{}>'.
  Type 'SymbolConstructor' provides no match for the signature 'new (...args: any[]): {}'.

And cannot compile 😢 Please describe how to use it

[yuhr]

Btw without as import it'll shadow the original Symbol identifier and disable static methods such as Symbol.for and Symbol.keyFor ... this is not specific to Symbol. Is there any way to "merge" the original methods into custom runtype? Is it possible?

[yuhr]

That's right indeed, sorry for the rough question. Thanks a lot 🌟