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Implements GHC Proposal #24: .../ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0024-no-kind-vars.rst Fixes Trac #16334, Trac #16315 With this patch, scoping rules for type and kind variables have been unified: kind variables no longer receieve special treatment. This simplifies both the language and the implementation. User-facing changes ------------------- * Kind variables are no longer implicitly quantified when an explicit forall is used: p :: Proxy (a :: k) -- still accepted p :: forall k a. Proxy (a :: k) -- still accepted p :: forall a. Proxy (a :: k) -- no longer accepted In other words, now we adhere to the "forall-or-nothing" rule more strictly. Related function: RnTypes.rnImplicitBndrs * The -Wimplicit-kind-vars warning has been deprecated. * Kind variables are no longer implicitly quantified in constructor declarations: data T a = T1 (S (a :: k) | forall (b::k). T2 (S b) -- no longer ac...5bc195b1
