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Simon Peyton Jones authored
In the type checker Constraint and * are distinct; and the function that takes the kind of a type should respect that distinction (Trac #15971). This patch implements the change: * Introduce Type.tcTypeKind, and use it throughout the type inference engine * Add new Note [Kinding rules for types] for the kinding rules, especially for foralls. * Redefine isPredTy ty = tcIsConstraintKind (tcTypeKind ty) (it had a much more complicated definition before) Some miscellaneous refactoring * Get rid of TyCoRep.isTYPE, Kind.isTYPEApp, in favour of TyCoRep.kindRep, kindRep_maybe * Rename Type.getRuntimeRepFromKind_maybe to getRuntimeRep_maybe I did some spot-checks on compiler perf, and it really doesn't budge (as expected).
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