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Warn about unnecessary unsafeCoerce

unsafeCoerce has been around a lot longer than coerce, so older code tends to use it even if coerce could do the job. It would be nice if the type checker could produce a warning when it detected such a situation.

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Version 7.9
Type FeatureRequest
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
Component Compiler (Type checker)
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