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    Fix egregious duplication of vars in RnTypes · b9ac9e05
    Ryan Scott authored
    `RnTypes` contains a fairly intricate algorithm to extract
    the kind and type variables of an HsType. This algorithm carefully
    maintains the separation between type variables and kind variables
    so that the difference between `-XPolyKinds` and `-XTypeInType` can
    be respected.
    
    But after doing all this, `rmDupsInRdrTyVars` stupidly just
    concatenated the lists of type and kind variables at the end. If a
    variable were used as both a type and a kind, the algorithm would
    produce *both*! This led to all kinds of problems, including #13988.
    
    This is mostly Richard Eisenberg's patch. The only original
    contribution I made was adapting call sites of `rnImplicitBndrs` to
    work with the new definition of `rmDupsInRdrTyVars`. That is,
    `rnImplicitBndrs` checks for variables that are illegally used in
    both type and kind positions without using `-XTypeInType`, but in
    order to check this, one cannot have filtered duplicate variables out
    before passing them to `rnImplicitBndrs`. To accommodate for this, I
    needed to concoct variations on the existing `extract-` functions in
    `RnTypes` which do not remove duplicates, and use those near
    `rnImplicitBndrs` call sites.
    
    test case: ghci/scripts/T13988
    
    Test Plan: make test TEST=T13988
    
    Reviewers: goldfire, simonpj, austin, bgamari
    
    Reviewed By: goldfire, simonpj
    
    Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie
    
    GHC Trac Issues: #13988
    
    Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3902
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