Remove special case handling of dot shorthands in null aware elements. #1757
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We fixed the parser so that it can correctly handle: ```dart [?.property] ``` Even if there is no space between `?` and `.`, it knows to treat it as a dot shorthand inside a null-aware element here. So the formatter doesn't need to force insert a space in there to avoid `?.` from being tokenized as a null-aware access.
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We fixed the parser so that it can correctly handle:
[?.property]Even if there is no space between
?and., it knows to treat it as a dot shorthand inside a null-aware element here. So the formatter doesn't need to force insert a space in there to avoid?.from being tokenized as a null-aware access.See: dart-lang/language#4477