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    Rework Template Haskell's handling of strictness · f975b0b1
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    Currently, Template Haskell's treatment of strictness is not enough to
    cover all possible combinations of unpackedness and strictness. In
    addition, it isn't equipped to deal with new features (such as
    `-XStrictData`) which can change a datatype's fields' strictness during
    compilation.
    
    To address this, I replaced TH's `Strict` datatype with
    `SourceUnpackedness` and `SourceStrictness` (which give the programmer a
    more complete toolkit to configure a datatype field's strictness than
    just `IsStrict`, `IsLazy`, and `Unpack`). I also added the ability to
    reify a constructor fields' strictness post-compilation through the
    `reifyConStrictness` function.
    
    Fixes #10697.
    
    Test Plan: ./validate
    
    Reviewers: simonpj, goldfire, bgamari, austin
    
    Reviewed By: goldfire, bgamari
    
    Subscribers: thomie
    
    Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1603
    
    GHC Trac Issues: #10697
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