Explain in-operator narrowing.
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How does the 'in' operator narrow types?
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The in operator checks for a property and narrows a union accordingly: if ('swim' in pet) { pet.swim() } tells the compiler pet is the variant that has swim. It's a handy guard for object unions without a discriminant.
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