Declaring the type of 'this' in a typescript function?

Question

I\'m writing a grunt task in TypeScript. I\'m trying to translate something I already have in JavaScript.

So, when grunt runs a task, it runs a function. When it ru

Answer 1

Now (from TS 2.0) you can specify function's this type by using fake this parameter (should be the first one):

grunt.registerMultiTask('clean', function(this: SomeType) {
    //...
});

this parameters are fake parameters that come first in the parameter list of a function

More info here