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+// Copyright (c) 2023, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// SharedOptions=--enable-experiment=records
+
+// Verifies that constant-like records are correctly simplified into a constant
+// record by the backends who perform such optimizations.
+//
+// Regression test for https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/51883.
+
+void main() {
+  final x = ([1, 2], 3);
+  (x.$1).add(4);
+}