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Any TypeScript gurus in the house who can help me troubleshoot this? What am I fundamentally misunderstanding about type parameters / conditionals here?

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type: Type; should probably be type: T

Still not gonna work, though, cause the transform function is gonna assume the returned object has optional a and b keys.

You could cast the returned value to ToType<T> (https://tinyurl.com/27735582) or you could do some weird function overloading (https://tinyurl.com/mw2m4nuz)

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Yeah dude, I hate type casting. But overloaded functions are so uncommon, haha, I dunno, I might cast in that instance, or use a type assertion.

Oops, yup 😆

Ideally I'd leverage TypeScript's inline control flow as much as possible since casting with `as` effectively disables type checking.

Function overloading is super weird, but could be promising...