Global declaration crashes TypeScript in Visual Studio Code

[Kristonitas]

Premise

In my work project we are using three.js library from an external compiled source file: three.min.js. Our own codebase is being migrated to typescript, so to more easily use three.js, we try to use typings for it. Since THREE is a global namespace variable (that is defined by the library itself), we want to have it accessible in each file without any import statement. For that I am folowing this example: #3180

The problem happens if I declare THREE as a global constant. It works if I declare with a different name. The IDE doesn't show any errors and just stops compiling typescript all together.

Details

TypeScript Version: 3.2.2
Code Version: 1.30.0 (1.30.0)

Search Terms: Error processing request. Debug Failure. Expected a module symbol to be declared by a SourceFile or ModuleDeclaration.

Code

// global.d.ts
import * as _THREE from 'three';

declare global {
  const THREE: typeof _THREE;
}
// index.ts
export const a = {}; // Exporting something to make this file a module

let v = new THREE.Vector3();

Typescript Output (in IDE)

[Error  - 12:03:17] 'references' request failed with error.
Error processing request. Debug Failure. Expected a module symbol to be declared by a SourceFile or ModuleDeclaration.
Error: Debug Failure. Expected a module symbol to be declared by a SourceFile or ModuleDeclaration.
    at getReferencedSymbolsForModule (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:99136:38)
    at Object.getReferencedSymbolsForNode (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:99088:40)
    at Object.findReferencedSymbols (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:98780:60)
    at Object.findReferences (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:117557:41)
    at /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:124107:68
    at callbackProjectAndLocation (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:124160:13)
    at /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:124134:24
    at forEachProjectInProjects (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:124117:17)
    at combineProjectOutputWorker (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:124132:13)
    at combineProjectOutputForReferences (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:124090:13)
    at IOSession.Session.getReferences (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:125124:34)
    at Session.handlers.ts.createMapFromTemplate._a.(anonymous function) (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:124270:61)
    at /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:125824:88
    at IOSession.Session.executeWithRequestId (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:125815:28)
    at IOSession.Session.executeCommand (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:125824:33)
    at IOSession.Session.onMessage (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:125846:35)
    at Interface.<anonymous> (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:127106:27)
    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
    at Interface.emit (events.js:211:7)
    at Interface._onLine (readline.js:282:10)
    at Interface._normalWrite (readline.js:424:12)
    at Socket.ondata (readline.js:141:10)
    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:211:7)
    at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:263:12)
    at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:250:11)
    at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:208:10)
    at Pipe.onread (net.js:594:20)

Expected behavior: Show an error or work as predicted by exposing a global constant with the name THREE.

Actual behavior: Getting an error in Typescript Output tab and no syntax highlighting in my files.

Example project: https://github.com/Kristonitas/three-typings-test

package.json and tsconfig.json are included in the example project which reproduces the issue.

Related Issues: #3180