Often a method will take as a string the name of a property of some object that it's working on. A common example would be http://backbonejs.org/#Model-get

It would be ideal if TypeScript could provide compile-time checking on these calls to make sure that the string is actually a valid property of the underlying model. As a possible proposal:

interface Person { firstName: string lastName: string phoneNumber: string } function get(property: memberof Person) {} get('firstName') // compiles get('middleName') // would not compile 

In the context of the get function, "memberof Person" would be equivalent to "string".