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    Enhance Spina class typing and dynamic attribute method support.

    Review Request #13222 — Created Aug. 17, 2023 and discarded — Latest diff uploaded

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    Spina
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    This change improves typing support throughout Spina, helping to cement
    some patterns, improve code maintenance, and correct typing issues in
    derived classes.

    SpinaClass is now a generic (SpinaClass<TBase>), which takes in the
    class being typed, merges with it, and sets the prototype to it. This
    replaces the SpinaClass & TBase we had internally in several places,
    and gives us a proper up-front type to avoid some casting. Untyped, it
    behaves like it did before.

    __super__ is now mapped to any instead of object, avoiding type
    errors when looking for attributes/functions on parents.

    Backbone's _Result<T> is now exported in Spina as Result<T>, giving
    us a non-private, stable type we can use when we need to reference a
    type or callable returning the type.

    And then, finally, we have a fix for defining methods for Result<T>,
    without having to suppress errors. Subclasses that define methods for
    one or more dynamic Result<T> attributes can now inherit from
    DynamicAttrs(BaseClass, attr1, attr2, ...). At runtime, this is a
    simple pass-through function that just returns BaseClass. During type
    checking, it carefully omits the provided attributes from the parent and
    allows the child to define them as methods, which will then be seen in
    that class's typing.

    This helps avoid all sorts of issues. By default, these attributes are
    seen as non-methods, and must be treated as such. But when using
    DynamicAttrs, they're seen as methods explicitly, and
    subclasses/callers must treat them as such.

    Unit tests pass.

    Tested this with some in-progress work.

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