Cast to "<any[]>" not possible within "<" comparison

[jogibear9988]

This code does not work:

for (let i = 0; i < (<any[]>(<any>res).Data).length; i++) { }

if I'll refactor to this:

let ln = (<any[]>(<any>res).Data).length;
for (let i = 0; i < ln; i++) { }

it works.

is this intended?

[ajafff]

This is a legitimate bug report for the parser. If you followed the issue template, it would've been easier to figure out what "does not work".

This actually has nothing to do with for loops. You can reduce it to i < <any[]>(res): https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?jsx=0&ssl=1&ssc=1&pln=1&pc=17#code/JYAgPOCGB2CeDaBdAfACgE4FMDOBKIA
Looking at the JS output, you can see that the parser thinks this is a call expression (with type argument) instead of a comparison. This only seems to happen for array types, i.e. <any> does not trigger this bug.