---
source: crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/spec_tests.rs
expression: invalidVariable.ts
---
# Input
```ts
const number: any = 1

const anyArray: any[] = []

const anyMatrix: any[][] = []

const anyArray2: Array<any> = []

const anyMatrix2: Array<Array<any>> = []

const anyGenerics: T<any, Array<any>> = []

const bar5 = function (...args: any) {}

const baz5 = (...args: any) => {}

const test = <T extends Partial<any>>() => {};

```

# Diagnostics
```
invalidVariable.ts:1:15 lint/suspicious/noExplicitAny ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Unexpected any. Specify a different type.
  
  > 1 │ const number: any = 1
      │               ^^^
    2 │ 
    3 │ const anyArray: any[] = []
  
  i any disables many type checking rules. Its use should be avoided.
  

```

```
invalidVariable.ts:3:17 lint/suspicious/noExplicitAny ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Unexpected any. Specify a different type.
  
    1 │ const number: any = 1
    2 │ 
  > 3 │ const anyArray: any[] = []
      │                 ^^^
    4 │ 
    5 │ const anyMatrix: any[][] = []
  
  i any disables many type checking rules. Its use should be avoided.
  

```

```
invalidVariable.ts:5:18 lint/suspicious/noExplicitAny ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Unexpected any. Specify a different type.
  
    3 │ const anyArray: any[] = []
    4 │ 
  > 5 │ const anyMatrix: any[][] = []
      │                  ^^^
    6 │ 
    7 │ const anyArray2: Array<any> = []
  
  i any disables many type checking rules. Its use should be avoided.
  

```

```
invalidVariable.ts:7:24 lint/suspicious/noExplicitAny ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Unexpected any. Specify a different type.
  
    5 │ const anyMatrix: any[][] = []
    6 │ 
  > 7 │ const anyArray2: Array<any> = []
      │                        ^^^
    8 │ 
    9 │ const anyMatrix2: Array<Array<any>> = []
  
  i any disables many type checking rules. Its use should be avoided.
  

```

```
invalidVariable.ts:9:31 lint/suspicious/noExplicitAny ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Unexpected any. Specify a different type.
  
     7 │ const anyArray2: Array<any> = []
     8 │ 
   > 9 │ const anyMatrix2: Array<Array<any>> = []
       │                               ^^^
    10 │ 
    11 │ const anyGenerics: T<any, Array<any>> = []
  
  i any disables many type checking rules. Its use should be avoided.
  

```

```
invalidVariable.ts:11:22 lint/suspicious/noExplicitAny ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Unexpected any. Specify a different type.
  
     9 │ const anyMatrix2: Array<Array<any>> = []
    10 │ 
  > 11 │ const anyGenerics: T<any, Array<any>> = []
       │                      ^^^
    12 │ 
    13 │ const bar5 = function (...args: any) {}
  
  i any disables many type checking rules. Its use should be avoided.
  

```

```
invalidVariable.ts:11:33 lint/suspicious/noExplicitAny ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Unexpected any. Specify a different type.
  
     9 │ const anyMatrix2: Array<Array<any>> = []
    10 │ 
  > 11 │ const anyGenerics: T<any, Array<any>> = []
       │                                 ^^^
    12 │ 
    13 │ const bar5 = function (...args: any) {}
  
  i any disables many type checking rules. Its use should be avoided.
  

```

```
invalidVariable.ts:13:33 lint/suspicious/noExplicitAny ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Unexpected any. Specify a different type.
  
    11 │ const anyGenerics: T<any, Array<any>> = []
    12 │ 
  > 13 │ const bar5 = function (...args: any) {}
       │                                 ^^^
    14 │ 
    15 │ const baz5 = (...args: any) => {}
  
  i any disables many type checking rules. Its use should be avoided.
  

```

```
invalidVariable.ts:15:24 lint/suspicious/noExplicitAny ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Unexpected any. Specify a different type.
  
    13 │ const bar5 = function (...args: any) {}
    14 │ 
  > 15 │ const baz5 = (...args: any) => {}
       │                        ^^^
    16 │ 
    17 │ const test = <T extends Partial<any>>() => {};
  
  i any disables many type checking rules. Its use should be avoided.
  

```

```
invalidVariable.ts:17:33 lint/suspicious/noExplicitAny ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Unexpected any. Specify a different type.
  
    15 │ const baz5 = (...args: any) => {}
    16 │ 
  > 17 │ const test = <T extends Partial<any>>() => {};
       │                                 ^^^
    18 │ 
  
  i any disables many type checking rules. Its use should be avoided.
  

```