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[Bug]: Invalid "Missing initializer in const declaration" error reported in .d.ts files #14871

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@michaldudak

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How are you using Babel?

Programmatic API (babel.transform, babel.parse)

Input code

import * as babel from "@babel/core";

const source = `
export const foo: string;
`;

babel.parse(source, {
  configFile: false,
  filename: "source.d.ts",
  plugins: ["@babel/plugin-syntax-typescript"],
});

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Current and expected behavior

After updating @babel/parser from 7.17.3 to 7.17.7, parsing .d.ts files, as shown above, fails with the following error:

SyntaxError: C:\Users\Michal\Desktop\babel-repro\source.d.ts: Missing initializer in const declaration. (2:24)

  1 |
> 2 | export const foo: string;
    |                         ^
  3 |
    at instantiate (C:\Users\Michal\Desktop\babel-repro\node_modules\@babel\parser\lib\index.js:72:32)
    at constructor (C:\Users\Michal\Desktop\babel-repro\node_modules\@babel\parser\lib\index.js:358:12)
    at Object.raise (C:\Users\Michal\Desktop\babel-repro\node_modules\@babel\parser\lib\index.js:3334:19)
    at Object.parseVar (C:\Users\Michal\Desktop\babel-repro\node_modules\@babel\parser\lib\index.js:15292:16)
    at Object.parseVarStatement (C:\Users\Michal\Desktop\babel-repro\node_modules\@babel\parser\lib\index.js:15085:10)
    at Object.parseVarStatement (C:\Users\Michal\Desktop\babel-repro\node_modules\@babel\parser\lib\index.js:10243:31)
    at Object.parseStatementContent (C:\Users\Michal\Desktop\babel-repro\node_modules\@babel\parser\lib\index.js:14631:21)
    at Object.parseStatementContent (C:\Users\Michal\Desktop\babel-repro\node_modules\@babel\parser\lib\index.js:10284:18)
    at Object.parseStatement (C:\Users\Michal\Desktop\babel-repro\node_modules\@babel\parser\lib\index.js:14556:17)
    at Object.parseExportDeclaration (C:\Users\Michal\Desktop\babel-repro\node_modules\@babel\parser\lib\index.js:15932:17) {
  code: 'BABEL_PARSE_ERROR',
  reasonCode: 'DeclarationMissingInitializer',
  loc: Position { line: 2, column: 24, index: 25 },
  pos: [Getter/Setter]
}

The official TypeScript compiler does not complain about this sample code.

Environment

System:
OS: Windows 10 10.0.19044
Binaries:
Node: 16.17.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
Yarn: 1.22.19 - ~\AppData\Roaming\npm\yarn.CMD
npm: 8.15.0 - ~\node_modules.bin\npm.CMD
npmPackages:
@babel/core: ^7.18.13 => 7.18.13
@babel/plugin-syntax-typescript: 7.16.7 => 7.16.7

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