(bug) short-hand module declaration not working in combination with 'noImplicitAny'

[choeller]

TypeScript Version: 2.1.0-dev.2016080

Code
Trying to declare a module with the new short-hand syntax like this:

  declare module 'lodash';

leads to the following TypeScript-Compiler error

error TS7005: Variable ''lodash'' implicitly has an 'any' type.

I also can't find a way to make this "explicit any".

Expected behavior:

new shorthand syntax for module-declaration should also work with 'noImplicitAny' activated

[DanielRosenwasser]

Actually from the source code

// Ambient shorthand module is an implicit any

At the very least, the error message you got is bad.

@mhegazy @andy-ms @RyanCavanaugh do we really want to consider this an implicit any? The entire point of noImplicitAny was to warn when the type system couldn't figure out the type of something. Here, you didn't expect the type system to figure anything out. You just wanted it to be quiet about something else and it yelled at you about your fix. The solution isn't any better than the original problem.

[RyanCavanaugh]

I don't see why we should make you write a type annotation either. It's just ceremony and the thing you have to write is very awkward.

[mhegazy]

but the module import is typed implicitly as any. how is this different from declare var $. we force you to write :any or it is an error.

[mhegazy]

the question here is why use declare module 'lodash'; instead of including the declaration file for lodash?

[choeller]

mhegazy I would be happy, If I could say

declare module 'myuntypedmodule': any;

but AFAIK there is just no way to do this. lodash was just an example. We are integrating a lot of legacy libs in our project, so this is where this short-hand syntax could be useful.