Support runtime check of function types.

sdk/lib/_internal/compiler/implementation/util/link.dart

Index: sdk/lib/_internal/compiler/implementation/util/link.dart
diff --git a/sdk/lib/_internal/compiler/implementation/util/link.dart b/sdk/lib/_internal/compiler/implementation/util/link.dart
index 29bc4c61d084b6f0b15a061984db9693c62c5db8..742c85a4558e6bbc20dd21b060449a88eb6926f3 100644
--- a/sdk/lib/_internal/compiler/implementation/util/link.dart
+++ b/sdk/lib/_internal/compiler/implementation/util/link.dart
@@ -107,7 +107,12 @@ class Link<T> {
 abstract class LinkBuilder<T> {
   factory LinkBuilder() = LinkBuilderImplementation;
 
-  Link<T> toLink();
+  /**
+   * Prepends all elements added to the builder to [tail]. The resulting list is
+   * returned and the builder is cleared.
+   */
+  Link<T> toLink([Link<T> tail = const Link()]);

[karlklose, 2013/06/20 07:32:55]

Is there more than one place we use it? And is the only reason for that use to
preserve the type parameter?

[Johnni Winther, 2013/06/21 12:19:15]

There is only one use case. There it is used to add all the elements in the
builder to an existing list.

+
   void addLast(T t);
 
   final int length;