OptionalPropNames<T>: unexpected result in conditional type

[yortus]

TypeScript Version: 2.8.0-dev.20180216

Code

// Type-level filters to extract just the required or optional properties of a type
// Defns from https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/pull/21919#issuecomment-365491689
type OptionalPropNames<T> = { [P in keyof T]: undefined extends T[P] ? P : never }[keyof T];
type RequiredPropNames<T> = { [P in keyof T]: undefined extends T[P] ? never : P }[keyof T];
type OptionalProps<T> = { [P in OptionalPropNames<T>]: T[P] };
type RequiredProps<T> = { [P in RequiredPropNames<T>]: T[P] };

// Let's extract just the optional property names in a type
type PropNames = OptionalPropNames<{req: string, opt?: number}>; // Names = "opt" | undefined

Expected behavior:
PropNames = "opt"

Actual behavior:
PropNames = "opt" | undefined. How did that undefined get in there?

Related Issues:
Noticed this while writing up #21988, but wasn't sure if the cause was related or not.

The RequiredProps and OptionalProps definitions come from #21919 (comment)

[yortus]

I worked it out. This is a result of the way mapped types carry over modifiers (readonly, ?) from the source type to the mapped type. This can be addressed using the new -? syntax added in #21919:

type OptionalPropNames<T> = { [P in keyof T]-?: undefined extends T[P] ? P : never }[keyof T];
 // ^^ new syntax to remove optional modifiers
type PropNames = OptionalPropNames<{req: string, opt?: number}>; // PropNames = "opt" ✓✓