Improve instanceof with structurally identical types #10216
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This PR improves typing of
instanceof
with structurally identical types. A type S is now considered to be an instance of a type T ifThis specifically means that two distinct but structurally identical types (such as two classes) are not considered instances of each other:
These changes affect similar code written using user defined type predicates.
Fixes #7271.