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[ty] Generalize nested types in inferred return types - #29488
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Summary
Generalize/promote types in inferred return types that refer to local nested definitions.
For example, consider this unannotated decorator:
We do not want to infer
def wrapper(func) -> Unknownas the return type ofregister. This would not just expose internal details, it would also incorrectly suggest that each call toregisterreturns the same function object. Instead, we generalize to an anonymous(func) -> Unknowncallable.For nested classes, we cannot easily do the same, so we return
Unknowninstead. In the future, to improve this, we might want to synthesize a protocol that has the same attributes and methods as the nested class.Test strategy
Updated existing mdtests