Static analyzer treats a user-defined assert as an assert statement

[DartBot]

This issue was originally filed by [email protected]

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Assert is a built-in identifier and therefore can be used as a function name. The spec in the section 11.15 says: "If a lexically visible declaration named assert is in scope, an assert statement assert(e); is interpreted as an expression statement (assert(e)); ."
So, the following code should give only the warning about using a built-in identifier as a name for user-defined function:

assert(p) => print(p);

main() {
  assert('not a boolean');
}

But dartc(r8026) still treats this as an assert statement and gives the warning: "assert requires 'bool' expression or '() -> bool' function"

[kasperl]

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[danrubel]

Added this to the M1 milestone.

[scheglov]

Set owner to @scheglov.
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[scheglov]

Issue #2443 has been merged into this issue.

[scheglov]

https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10516006

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[scheglov]

https://code.google.com/p/dart/source/detail?r=8290

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