inference: improve isa
-constraint propagation for iskindtype
objects
#46712
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Currently our inference isn't able to propagate
isa
-based type constraint for cases likeisa(Type{<:...}, DataType)
sincetypeintersect
may returnType
object itself when takingType
object andiskindtype
-object.This case happens in the following kind of situation (motivated by the discussion at #46553 (comment)):
This commit improves the situation by adding a special casing for abstract interpretation, rather than changing the behavior of
typeintersect
.