[flow analysis] Do not promote to mutual subtypes. Previously, flow analysis had the rule that type promotion only occurred when the type being tested was a subtype of the previously promoted type (or the declared type, if there was no previous promotion). This led to counterintuitive behaviors when the type being tested and the previously promoted type were mutual subtypes (see https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/4368). With this change, the rule is updated so that type promotion only occurs when the type being tested is a subtype of the previously promoted type _and_ the previously promoted type is _not_ a subtype of the type being tested. The user-visible difference is that promotion to a mutual subtype no longer occurs. This change makes flow analysis easier to reason about, and improves its behavior in corner cases, but I believe it will have minimal impact on real-world code. But to reduce the risk to existing code, the change only takes effect when the `sound-flow-analysis` language feature is enabled. Fixes https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/4368. Bug: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/4368 Change-Id: I30dab017e043e75603d618df721c8a2683667cd5 Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/429200 Reviewed-by: Johnni Winther <johnniwinther@google.com> Reviewed-by: Konstantin Shcheglov <scheglov@google.com> Commit-Queue: Paul Berry <paulberry@google.com>
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