useUnknownInCatchVariables does not apply to Promise#catch()

[fregante]

Bug Report

🔎 Search Terms

promise promises catch method function any unknown useUnknownInCatchVariables

🕗 Version & Regression Information

All versions with flag, like 4.5.0, including 4.6.0-nightly

async function veryverynice() {
    fetch('').catch(error => {
        console.log(error)
    })

    try {
        await fetch('')
    } catch (error) {
        console.log(error)
    }
}

⏯ Playground Link

4.6.0-nightly playground link with relevant code

💻 Code

async function veryverynice() {
    fetch('').catch(error => { // any
        console.log(error);
    });

    try {
        await fetch('')
    } catch (error) { // unknown
        console.log(error);
    }
}

🙁 Actual behavior

error in promise.catch(error => {}) is of type any

🙂 Expected behavior

error in promise.catch(error => {}) is of type unknown

🍝 Related

• Add flag to change catch variables' default types to unknown #41013

[MartinJohns]

This is not a bug. The flag is not supposed to change the type of the catch method.

This was suggested as a feature request already: #45602. This was mentioned in the PR you linked.

[fregante]

This was suggested as a feature request already: #45602

I was literally writing a comment about that 😅 sorry for the duplicate