[dart-announce] Breaking Change 54640: Fix pattern context type schema for cast patterns.

['Paul Berry' via Dart Announcements]

The pattern context type schema for cast patterns will be changed from Object? to _ (the unknown type), to align with the specification.

This is a minor correction to the compiler's type inference algorithm, and it's not expected to affect any user code in practice. However, it is theoretically possible that it will cause a breakage, by affecting the implicit types that are filled in by type inference.

More details can be found here: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/54640.

If you have any concerns about this change, please leave comments in the linked issue.

Thank you!

Paul

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['Paul Berry' via Dart Announcements]

The change was implemented in https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/commit/3636c8a08bc1a0dfbec39305df05632247f83472.