Clean up AST by specifying vardecl as sized #1203
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We currently have the type of VarDecl set up so that it could hold an unsized type. This is never done in the AST, and leads to a lot of unecessary hand-wringing, like this unreachable code in the typechecker:
We cannot do the same in the MIR, since certain optimizations actually can produce unsized declarations, namely function inlining
#1097
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Internally clean up how variable declarations are represented.
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