[Diagnostics] Add a fix-it to insert 'some' when associated type inference failed because existential types can't conform to protocols. #39937
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Protocol conformances for existential types are not supported today. If a programmers tries to fulfill an associated type with conformance requirements using an existential type, they'll get an unactionable error message:
When the associated type was inferred from an existential result type, the compiler can suggest that the programmer use an opaque type instead by inserting
some
, which is usually a better solution for hiding a concrete return type behind a protocol: