fix: assert.typeof(xxx, 'object') should assert record or null

[michaelfig]

This refinement makes the assertion meaningful (before it was just asserting the equivalent of any).

[kriskowal]

What’s the reasoning for any over unknown in this case?

[michaelfig]

What’s the reasoning for any over unknown in this case?

Turns out that using Record<any, any> | null is the only combination that gives the proper type narrowing one would expect assert.typeof(xxx, 'object') to do. It's by no means perfect, but provides the features I need to use assert.typeof to eliminate non-matching type possibilities.

It narrows to the intersection of the type with any kind of object (including arrays, etc) or null.

Unfortunately I was never able to find a way to have it type the same as assert(typeof xxx === 'object'). Schade.