ERROR in Illegal State: literal maps should have been converted into functions

[StephenFluin]

I'm submitting a bug report

When a template includes an assignment such as <button (click)="title = {}"></button>, AOT Compilation Fails.

Current behavior
AOT Compilation fails with the error:
ERROR in Illegal State: literal maps should have been converted into functions

Expected behavior
AOT Compilation Succeeds without error

Minimal reproduction of the problem with instructions
See reproduction here:
https://github.com/StephenFluin/literal-error-repro

Clone the project, npm install, ng build -prod

• Angular version: 4.0.0-rc.1
  I also tested with the latest master.

• Node (for AoT issues): node --version = v7.6.0

[coryrylan]

Not sure if this is related seems like a similar runtime error.
Angular CLI RC.0
Angular 4 RC1
Node 6.9.x

Error: Illegal State: literal arrays should have been converted into functions

I haven't been able to narrow down what is causing this specifically yet. It's a private repo so I can try to get in reproducible public repo soon.

Stack trace:

Error: Illegal State: literal arrays should have been converted into functions↵    at _AstToIrVisitor.visitLiteralArray (https://localhost:1234/vendor.bundle.js:29347:84) [<root>]↵    at LiteralArray.visit (https://localhost:1234/vendor.bundle.js:25213:168) [<root>]↵    at _AstToIrVisitor.visit (https://localhost:1234/vendor.bundle.js:29394:165) [<root>]↵    at _AstToIrVisitor.visitPropertyWrite (https://localhost:1234/vendor.bundle.js:29374:387) [<root>]↵    at PropertyWrite.visit (https://localhost:1234/vendor.bundle.js:25165:169) [<root>]↵    at convertActionBinding (https://localhost:1234/vendor.bundle.js:29224:427) [<root>]↵    at https://localhost:1234/vendor.bundle.js:31497:576 [<root>]↵    at Array.forEach (native) [<root>]↵    at ViewBuilder._createElementHandleEventFn (https://localhost:1234/vendor.bundle.js:31497:219) [<root>]↵    at nodeDef (https://localhost:1234/vendor.bundle.js:31418:356) [<root>]↵    at https://localhost:1234/vendor.bundle.js:31371:905 [<root>]↵    at Array.map (native) [<root>]↵    at ViewBuilder.build (https://localhost:1234/vendor.bundle.js:31371:881) [<root>]↵    at https://localhost:1234/vendor.bundle.js:31371:179 [<root>]

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