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Remove always-on language feature flag: RefCellNotationInformationals #20159

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@T-Gro

LanguageFeature.RefCellNotationInformationals has shipped since F# 6.0 and is enabled for every selectable language version (the minimum accepted --langversion is 8.0). Its feature flag can therefore never be turned off, so it is dead configuration. This issue removes the flag and collapses the guarded code to its enabled behaviour.

What to remove

  • The RefCellNotationInformationals case in LanguageFeatures.fs and LanguageFeatures.fsi
  • Its entry in the features map and its GetFeatureString arm
  • The featureRefCellNotationInformationals string in FSComp.txt
  • Every SupportsFeature LanguageFeature.RefCellNotationInformationals / checkLanguageFeatureAndRecover … RefCellNotationInformationals guard — keep only the enabled path and delete the legacy branch
  • Adjust affected tests and baselines accordingly

Consequence: --disableLanguageFeature:RefCellNotationInformationals is no longer a recognised feature name.

Version mapping

LanguageFeature.RefCellNotationInformationals, languageVersion60

Feature string

featureRefCellNotationInformationals,"informational messages related to reference cells"

Part of #20139

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