bufferTime typings do not accept bufferCreationInterval null

[mattiash]

RxJS version:
6.1.0

Code to reproduce:

import {from} from 'rxjs'
import {bufferTime} from 'rxjs/operators'

from([1,2,3]).pipe(bufferTime(1000, null, 2)).subscribe(n => console.log(n))

Expected behavior:
Typescript code should compile the code correctly with strictNullChecks.

Actual behavior:

index.ts(4,37): error TS2345: Argument of type 'null' is not assignable to parameter of type 'number'.

Additional information:

The tests for bufferTime in spec/operators/bufferTime-spec.ts test that it works to send in null as bufferCreationInterval (https://github.com/ReactiveX/rxjs/blob/master/spec/operators/bufferTime-spec.ts#L45), but the typings for bufferTime specifies that bufferCreationInterval is a number only. The reason that your tests compile is that you have strictNullChecks set to false in tsconfig.json.

[benlesh]

That's a bug in the typings.

To work around, you can pass any negative number in (I'd recommend -1)