Fix type directed disambiguation of optional arg defaults #12673
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Fix the specific issue in #12668.
The approach: In type-checking, I duplicate the type annotation on an optional argument's
Ppat_constraint
on the optional argument default expression. This is a bit of a hack but it is non-invasive.I'm not confident that this approach fixes all potential backward-incompatibilities from #12236 (as optional argument defaults used to be type-checked more like
let
than likematch
) but I can't find another case where it matters.