A class instance stored in a slot typed as an anonymous structural object
type failed with SC2003 (in a union) or SC2002 (a plain slot). The type is
marked by the identity-flow scan, but needsView dropped the mark when
nothing compared the value by identity: pi's
`{ handleInput?(data: string): void } | undefined` field is only ever
called through. The type then mapped to a record, and the record copy
cannot carry a prototype method. The same dropped mark also cost named
interfaces with an OPTIONAL method, whose type is `T | undefined` and so
has no call signature where protocol() looks.
A structural type that exposes a program class method can never be a
record copy: the copy would lose the method, its receiver and subclass
overrides. needsView now keeps the mark for such targets, reusing
methodViewSources. The mark exists only because an instance already flows
into the type, so programs without that flow keep their representation.
The new corpus program covers pi's optional-method union, a required
method in a plain slot, a subclass override, identity, and the data-only
width-copy path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
