When blocks were initially implemented, they were represented as containers in the i18n AST. This is problematic, because block affect the structure of the message.
These changes introduce a new `BlockPlaceholder` AST node and integrate it into the i18n pipeline. With the new node blocks are represented with the `START_BLOCK_<name>` and `CLOSE_BLOCK_<name>` placeholders.
PR Close#52958
A lot of our tests are wrapped in `{}` which serves no purpose, aside from increasing the nesting level and, in some cases, causing confusion. The braces appear to be a leftover from a time when all tests were wrapped in a `function main() {}`. The function declaration was removed in #21053, but the braces remained, presumably because it was easier to search&replace for `function main()`, but not to remove the braces at the same time.
PR Close#52239
In combination with the TS `noImplicitOverride` compatibility changes,
we also want to follow the best-practice of adding `override` to
members which are implemented as part of abstract classes. This
commit fixes all instances which will be flagged as part of the
custom `no-implicit-override-abstract` TSLint rule.
PR Close#42512
Joey Perrott