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    [project @ 1999-12-06 11:54:56 by simonpj] · fbdd694d
    Simon Peyton Jones authored
    Fix a major bug in exporting unfoldings involving existentials.
    
    Change core printing so that we put an '@' before type
    variables in case patterns.  This only affects existentials.
    
    	case x of
    	  C @ a x y -> ...
    
    Here 'a' is an existentially quantified type variable, and the
    '@' signifies this.  We continue to omit kinds and type on case-bound
    variables; the type checker can fill them in.
    
    The reason for this change is that type variables and term variables
    live in a different name space, so we need to know which name space
    is  involved when binding one.  How this ever worked I will never know.
    
    
    While I was at it, I also arranged that -ddump-rn prints out whatever
    it has even if it finds errors.  Adding -dppr-debug prints even the
    unfoldings on imported things.
    
    Simon
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