Flow analysis: rework some testing logic in preparation for pattern support.

- Variable types are no longer specified in the call to the `Var`
  constructor; they are now specified in the call to `declare`.  This
  paves the way for supporting variable pattern syntax, in which a
  single variable might appear in multiple variable patterns, and have
  its type specified in each pattern.  The properties `isFinal` and
  `isLate` are also moved to `declare` for consistency.

- Variables with inferred types are now specified by simply not
  including a type in `declare`; it's no longer necessary to specify
  `isImplicitlyTyped: true`.

- `declare` now supports an `expectInferredType` argument to allow the
  inferred type of an implicitly typed variable to be tested.

- The tests now check that variables are assigned a type before flow
  analysis requests it; previously this was not tested, and the flow
  analysis tests sometimes did things in the wrong order.  (The
  analyzer and CFE have always done this in the proper order though).

- The tests now support some of the crazy types that arise during type
  parameter promotion, e.g. they can now distinguish `(T&int)?` from
  `T&(int?)`.

- Flow analysis tests now properly replicate the analyzer and CFE
  behaviors for converting the static type of an initializer
  expression to the corresponding inferred variable type: (a) `Null`
  is converted to `dynamic`, and (b) type parameter promotions are
  dropped.

Note that this last behavior (dropping type parameter promotions) has
a lot of subtleties, and I'm not convinced the CFE and analyzer do it
soundly in all cases (I've already found one such soundness bug:
https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/49691).  In a later CL, I plan
to add a more thorough set of language tests to verify that we don't
have other lurking soundness issues.

Change-Id: I6f2cd20db1f07b34e0ad4e7002351c8de846b125
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/255600
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Shcheglov <scheglov@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Paul Berry <paulberry@google.com>
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