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overloaded name used in record pattern matching leads to panic! (the 'impossible' happened) in ghc

In Haskell,

  1. The scope of definitions can be controled.
  2. The same name can be used to define both a function and a field of record.
  3. The user can use that name in record pattern matching when only the function is within scope. For example
FuncId{ name = nm }

resulting in the following bug

[38 of 39] Compiling TxsUtils         ( src\TxsUtils.hs, .stack-work\dist\1f7101f2\build\Txs
Utils.o )
ghc.EXE: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
  (GHC version 8.0.2 for x86_64-unknown-mingw32):
        translateConPatVec: lookup

Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
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Version 8.0.2
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
Component Compiler
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