Normalization of patch signatures.

lib/coreimpl/list.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2011, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 /**
  * A [List] is an indexable collection with a length. It can be of
  * fixed size or extendable.
  */
 class ListImplementation<E> {
   /**
    * Factory implementation of List().
    *
    * Creates a list of the given [length].
    */
   external factory List([int length]);
 
   /**
    * Factory implementation of List.from().
    *
    * Creates a list with the elements of [other]. The order in
    * the list will be the order provided by the iterator of [other].
    */
   factory List.from(Iterable<E> other) {
     // TODO(ajohnsen): Make external once the vm can handle it, so we don't
     // lose generic type information.
     // Issue: #4727
     return _from(other);
   }
 
-  external static _from(Iterable<E> other);
+  external static List _from(Iterable<E> other);

[ahe, 2012/09/17 07:35:04]

<E> is wrong here. It is just a bogus type annotation.

[Anders Johnsen, 2012/09/17 07:53:07]

Ivan fixed http://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=4727, do this should
be changed to just patch the factory.

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen, 2012/09/17 11:32:43]

Yes, please!

[Johnni Winther, 2012/09/19 09:03:30]

I guess I'll let you do that. Not really into writing patches.

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