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Created by einarpersson on 9/16/2024 in #questions
Why does an optional property add a " | undefined" instead of just being an optional property?
Hi, this feels like such a basic question that it probably has an answer, but I don't understand why marking a arktype property as optional not just makes the corresponding inferred type property optional, without adding an additional | undefined? I encountered something similar with zod which had the result that my zod-type and database generated type did not match although they should. Dummy example: 
const schema = type({
  'name?': 'string',
  email: 'string.email'
});


// typeof schema.infer
//  {
//     email: string;
//     name?: string | undefined;
// }

type WhatIWanted = {
  name?: string;
  email: string;
}
const schema = type({
  'name?': 'string',
  email: 'string.email'
});


// typeof schema.infer
//  {
//     email: string;
//     name?: string | undefined;
// }

type WhatIWanted = {
  name?: string;
  email: string;
}
https://github.com/colinhacks/zod/issues/3186
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