Properly report unreachable switch cases containing `when` clauses.

When determining whether a switch statement is exhaustive, it's
important for the exhaustiveness algorithm to ignore cases containing
`when` clauses, since a `when` clause creates the possiblity that the
case won't match.

Previously, the way this was done in the analyzer was for the
`SpaceCreator.createRootSpace` method to create an unknown space for
cases containing `when` clauses. This approach produced the correct
behavior when determining whether the switch statement as a whole was
exhaustive, but since it discarded information about the pattern being
matched, it limited the ability to determine whether an individual
case was reachable, leading to
https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/56710.

To fix this, `SpaceCreator.createRootSpace` is changed so that it
always produces a space that describes the case pattern, regardless of
whether a `when` clause is present, and instead,
`computeExhaustiveness` is responsible for ensuring that the case is
properly excluded from the determination of whether the switch is
exhaustive. This allows `computeExhaustiveness` to properly computate
whether each individual case is reachable, even for cases that have
`when` clauses.

This change in approach produced some minor differences in the test
cases in `pkg/_fe_analyzer_shared/test/exhaustiveness/data`, but these
differences are not user-observable.

Fixes https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/56710.

Change-Id: I36629a77c4c1832fb1b8abb6ea7b109e0ca14373
Bug: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/56710
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/384326
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Shcheglov <scheglov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Johnni Winther <johnniwinther@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Paul Berry <paulberry@google.com>
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README.md

Dart

An approachable, portable, and productive language for high-quality apps on any platform

Dart is:

  • Approachable: Develop with a strongly typed programming language that is consistent, concise, and offers modern language features like null safety and patterns.

  • Portable: Compile to ARM, x64, or RISC-V machine code for mobile, desktop, and backend. Compile to JavaScript or WebAssembly for the web.

  • Productive: Make changes iteratively: use hot reload to see the result instantly in your running app. Diagnose app issues using DevTools.

Dart's flexible compiler technology lets you run Dart code in different ways, depending on your target platform and goals:

  • Dart Native: For programs targeting devices (mobile, desktop, server, and more), Dart Native includes both a Dart VM with JIT (just-in-time) compilation and an AOT (ahead-of-time) compiler for producing machine code.

  • Dart Web: For programs targeting the web, Dart Web includes both a development time compiler (dartdevc) and a production time compiler (dart2js).

Dart platforms illustration

License & patents

Dart is free and open source.

See LICENSE and PATENT_GRANT.

Using Dart

Visit dart.dev to learn more about the language, tools, and to find codelabs.

Browse pub.dev for more packages and libraries contributed by the community and the Dart team.

Our API reference documentation is published at api.dart.dev, based on the stable release. (We also publish docs from our beta and dev channels, as well as from the primary development branch).

Building Dart

If you want to build Dart yourself, here is a guide to getting the source, preparing your machine to build the SDK, and building.

There are more documents in our repo at docs.

Contributing to Dart

The easiest way to contribute to Dart is to file issues.

You can also contribute patches, as described in Contributing.

Roadmap

Future plans for Dart are included in the combined Dart and Flutter roadmap on the Flutter wiki.