Regression: constructor accessor not allowed on plain objects

[mhofman]

Bug Report

Since 4.8.0, TypeScript errors when defining a constructor accessor on plain objects. Likely as a side-effect of #48954

🔎 Search Terms

constructor accessor object

🕗 Version & Regression Information

• This changed between versions 4.7.4 and 4.8

⏯ Playground Link

Playground Link: Provided

Output

"use strict";
const foo = {
    get constructor() {
        return {};
    }
};

Compiler Options

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "strict": true,
    "noImplicitAny": true,
    "strictNullChecks": true,
    "strictFunctionTypes": true,
    "strictPropertyInitialization": true,
    "strictBindCallApply": true,
    "noImplicitThis": true,
    "noImplicitReturns": true,
    "alwaysStrict": true,
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    "declaration": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "target": "ES2017",
    "jsx": "react",
    "module": "ESNext",
    "moduleResolution": "node"
  }
}

💻 Code

const foo = {
  get constructor() {
    return {};
  }
};

🙁 Actual behavior

Class constructor may not be an accessor. ts(1341)

🙂 Expected behavior

No error for non class cases.