## Summary
This PR changes the inferred type for symbols in unreachable sections of
code to `Never` (instead of reporting them as unbound), in order to
silence false positive diagnostics. See the lengthy comment in the code
for further details.
## Test Plan
- Updated Markdown tests.
- Manually verified a couple of ecosystem diagnostic changes.
## Summary
This PR closes#16248.
If the return type of the function isn't assignable to the one
specified, an `invalid-return-type` error occurs.
I thought it would be better to report this as a different kind of error
than the `invalid-assignment` error, so I defined this as a new error.
## Test Plan
All type inconsistencies in the test cases have been replaced with
appropriate ones.
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Co-authored-by: Carl Meyer <carl@astral.sh>
This example from @sharkdp shows how terminal statements can appear in
statically known branches:
https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/15676#issuecomment-2618809716
```py
def _(cond: bool):
x = "a"
if cond:
x = "b"
if True:
return
reveal_type(x) # revealed: "a", "b"; should be "a"
```
We now use visibility constraints to track reachability, which allows us
to model this correctly. There are two related changes as a result:
- New bindings are not assumed to be visible; they inherit the current
"scope start" visibility, which effectively means that new bindings are
visible if/when the current flow is reachable
- When simplifying visibility constraints after branching control flow,
we only simplify if none of the intervening branches included a terminal
statement. That is, earlier unaffected bindings are only _actually_
unaffected if all branches make it to the merge point.
`FlowSnapshot` now tracks a `reachable` bool, which indicates whether we
have encountered a terminal statement on that control flow path. When
merging flow states together, we skip any that have been marked
unreachable. This ensures that bindings that can only be reached through
unreachable paths are not considered visible.
## Test Plan
The new mdtests failed (with incorrect `reveal_type` results, and
spurious `possibly-unresolved-reference` errors) before adding the new
visibility constraints.
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Co-authored-by: Carl Meyer <carl@astral.sh>
