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boolean-if on optional invalidly allowed at comptime #21742

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0.14.0-dev.1924+bdd3bc056

Steps to Reproduce and Observed Behavior

fn b(arg: ?bool) bool {
    return if (arg) true else false;
}
fn u(arg: ?u0) bool {
    return if (arg) true else false;
}
test {
    _ = comptime b(true); //passes (yields false)
    _ = comptime u(0); //passes (yields false)
    //_ = b(true); //correctly issues compile error `expected type 'bool', found '?bool'`
    //_ = u(0); //correctly issues compile error `expected type 'bool', found '?u0'`
}

Expected Behavior

Optional-unwrapping if should always require a capture, as it does in runtime code.
IMO this should count as a miscompilation, since invalid code (where the intent is not clear) is processed (and yields an unintuitive result).

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