Force-enable strict optional only when checking for unsafe overlaps #5252
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Resolves #5246
Previously, we force-enabled strict optional checks when performing all overload definition checks. This ended up causing mypy to miss some errors in definitions when
--no-strict-optional
mode is enabled.This commit will now force-enable strict optional only when checking if overloads are unsafely overlapping: we use the existing mode when checking if one variant completely eclipses another or when checking the implementation.