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    Support polymorphic kind recursion · c9117200
    Simon Peyton Jones authored
    This is (I hope) the last major patch for kind polymorphism.
    The big new feature is polymorphic kind recursion when you
    supply a complete kind signature for a type constructor.
    (I've documented it in the user manual too.)
    
    This fixes Trac #6137, #6093, #6049.
    
    The patch also makes type/data families less polymorphic by default.
       data family T a
    now defaults to T :: * -> *
    If you want T :: forall k. k -> *, use
       data family T (a :: k)
    
    This defaulting to * is done whenever there is a
    "complete, user-specified kind signature", something that is
    carefully defined in the user manual.
    
    Hurrah!
    c9117200