Revert "Merge pull request #2639 from Hixie/always_specify_types"

This reverts commit f41b3411da35929b09009e47cb52474389e42874, reversing
changes made to e33d8d96212f3e337a6660f1eb1118bffc945bf5.

This was a bad check-in due to my mangling uploading a new version of the branch from a different machine.

This reverts https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pull/2639 and will be replaced by https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pull/2640