[test] text format: drop support for some pre-standard keywords #1680
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In 2018 (#720 and #926), the spec renamed some keywords before WebAssembly was standardized (
get_local->local.get,anyfunc->funcref, etc.).WABT dropped support for the old names in 2021 (WebAssembly/wabt#1792), MDN revised its documentation in 2022 (mdn/interactive-examples#2298), and wasm-tools dropped support last month (bytecodealliance/wasm-tools#1184). However, users do get confused when they find a tutorial that uses the old syntax and the code works in more-tolerant implementations but is rejected by other conforming consumers. (E.g. WebAssembly/wabt#1802, WebAssembly/wabt#1820, WebAssembly/wabt#1883, WebAssembly/wabt#2010, ...)
Now that it's been five years and tutorials using the old syntax are increasingly rare, this PR would check that the old keywords are now considered malformed.