Including a comment explaning the weird 'undefined as any' lines.

iclanton · iclanton · commit 8ebdfb36a40f · 2017-06-29T14:02:19.000-07:00
diff --git a/core-build/gulp-core-build/src/index.ts b/core-build/gulp-core-build/src/index.ts
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ const packageFolder: string = (builtPackage.directories && builtPackage.director
   : '';
 
 let _buildConfig: IBuildConfig = {
+  // gulp and rootPath are set to undefined here because they'll be defined in the initialize function below,
+  //  but we don't want their types to be nullable because a task that uses StrictNullChecks should expect them
+  //  to be defined without checking their values.
   gulp: undefined as any, // tslint:disable-line:no-any
   rootPath: undefined as any, // tslint:disable-line:no-any
   packageFolder,
