Flow analysis: Use extension type erasure for implicit `is` reachability.

Whenever a pattern performs an implicit `is` test, flow analysis
attempts to determine whether the `is` test is guaranteed to succeed;
if it is, then flow analysis considers the code path in which the `is`
test fails to be unreachable. This allows flow analysis to recognize
switch statements that are trivially exhaustive (because one of the
cases is guaranteed to match), avoiding spurious errors such as
"variable must be assigned before use" or "missing return statement".

This change upgrades the logic for computing when an `is` test is
guaranteed to succeed, so that it accounts for type erasure of
extension types. This brings flow analysis's treatment of switch
statements into closer alignment with the exhaustiveness checker,
which should reduce the risk of confusing error messages. For more
information see
https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/3534#issuecomment-1885839268.

Fixes https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/3534.

Bug: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/3534
Change-Id: Ib73d191e04e7fa8c0e6888c2733dae73d8f389da
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/345822
Reviewed-by: Chloe Stefantsova <cstefantsova@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Paul Berry <paulberry@google.com>
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README.md

Dart

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