Extending Object.prototype with TypeScript

Question

I am currently working on a TypeScript API, which requires some additional features binding to the Object prototype (Object.prototype).

Consider the following code:<

Answer 1

I used to have:

// See if an array contains an object
Array.prototype.contains = function (obj) {
    var i = this.length;
    while (i--) {
        if (this[i] === obj) {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

in order to make that code compile with typescript I added the line:

interface Array {
    contains(obj: Object): boolean;
}

Thanks basarat!