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Exhaustiveness checking in flow
const checkType = (element: 'a' | 'b' | 'c'): string => {
switch (element) {
case 'a':
return 'first';
case 'b':
return 'second';
default:
(element: empty) // This cast only succeeds if you've already handled every possible case. Otherwise, you will get a type error
throw new Error()
}
}
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