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Specify null safety#2605

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Rebasing
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Typos: Escaping braces meant to be code
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Eliminated text about migration features, adapted the remaining text to preserve the meaning for all null-safety features
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Reorganized material on null/Null
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WIP
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Corrected last part of section Variables
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Did expression typing, spread element, i2b
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Super-bounded types, least and greatest closure
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Assignability, generics
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Extreme types
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Extreme types, helper functions
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.call insertion on nullable type; clean up BlindDefineSymbol
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Main
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Type Type
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Type Type fixes
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More typeType fixes
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Constant instances (in particular: about canonical instances)
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Corrected variable initialization specification ("has been stored" rather than "first execution of getter/setter")
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Small adjustments to Variables
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Rebase
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Boolean conversion; type test; made true/false terminology consistent with `Object` terminology
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Constant types; type variable elimination in constants
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Conditional expression; operators && and ||; `if` statements; delete old section about promotion
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Integrate Null Promotion; put v==null rules into Type Promotion, and fill in enough commentary to make that section make sense
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Null shorting
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Small fixes in section Null Shorting
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Revisiting all occurrences of \NULL/Null/null
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Did much of Standard ... Bounds
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Standard bounds
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Fixed the "SUB issues" section
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Clarified and corrected Canonical Syntax
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Fixed subsubsection --> subsection, 2*
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Typos
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Whitespace
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Interface type fixes
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Sync with specify_null_safety_new_sections_dec21
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Mark a subtype rule as redundant, in a TODO comment
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Adjust no-loops-in-noSuchMethod example
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Adjust no-loops-in-noSuchMethod example
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Corrected function type subtype rule (bounds); corrected "math" index entries
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Adjust class building types
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Adjust examples declaring non-nullable positional optional parameters with no default
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Add a TODO to introduce `Any`
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Correct example in section about super-bounded types
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Correction based on https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/2679
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Specify erasure of intersection types for the semantics of await expressions
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Typo
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Introduce \DynamicError, marking all dynamic errors just like compile-time errors have been for a while
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Changed the error margin markers to use red text
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Correct dynamic type of tear-off with covariant parameter
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Clarified tear-offs of methods with covariant parameters
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Correct a typo about closurization
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Correction: Add definition of normalizedType/topMergeType for member signatures
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Correction: Update dynamic type of covariant parameter to Object?
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Typo
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Add commentary to emphasize that `new`/`const` can be implicit, and `new/const C<T>()` is still an error when `C<T>` is super-bounded
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Add missing updates in section typeVoid
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Add missing error: default values must be type correct
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Add a paragraph explaining that the given section is about both optional and named parameters, not just parameters that are both
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Post-rebase error correction
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Correct usages of "final variable" and "constant variable"
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Add missing declaration kind about getter/setter type error
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Remove obsolete reference to "mixin composition" from section Superclasses
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Add comment about default values of noSuchMethod forwarders being underspecified
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Correct rule about the interface of T?
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Correct rule about interfaces of bounded types
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Corrected many occurrences of "string" to "string literal"
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Update the "parameter name `_...`" error
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Restore the index marker, define a command for it
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Corrected the huge rebase operation (removed TODO material)
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Fix obsolete ref
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Introduce <memberedDeclarationBody> and use it
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Add change log entry
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WIP
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Clarified class building types
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Correct the order of "bind formals to actuals", which has been rather mixed until now
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Correct the incorrect cleam that Null implements Object
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Add missing cases to the definition of interface types
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WIP
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Remove wrong brace
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Fix one-liner commentary
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