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This gives a more precise type signature to `magicDict` as proposed in #16646. In addition, this replaces the constant-folding rule for `magicDict` in `GHC.Core.Opt.ConstantFold` with a special case in the desugarer in `GHC.HsToCore.Expr.dsHsWrapped`. I have also renamed `magicDict` to `withDict` in light of the discussion in https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2021-April/019833.html. All of this has the following benefits: * `withDict` is now more type safe than before. Moreover, if a user applies `withDict` at an incorrect type, the special-casing in `dsHsWrapped` will now throw an error message indicating what the user did incorrectly. * `withDict` can now work with classes that have multiple type arguments, such as `Typeable @k a`. This means that `Data.Typeable.Internal.withTypeable` can now be implemented in terms of `withDict`. * Since the special-casing for `withDict` no longer needs to match on the structure of the expression passed as an argument to `withDict`, it no longer cares about the presence or absence of `Tick`s. In effect, this obsoletes the fix for #19667. The new `T16646` test case demonstrates the new version of `withDict` in action, both in terms of `base` functions defined in terms of `withDict` as well as in terms of functions from the `reflection` and `singletons` libraries. The `T16646Fail` test case demonstrates the error message that GHC throws when `withDict` is applied incorrectly. This fixes #16646. By adding more tests for `withDict`, this also fixes #19673 as a side effect.
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