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PostfixOperators doesn't work for types

PostfixOperators is a useful extension on the value level that defines (x OP) to mean ((OP) x) for an infix operator OP, rather than (\y -> (OP) x y). This could be even more useful on the type level, where lambdas are unavailable (so sections don't exist at all) but postfix operators could still exist.

This is already a common pseudocode idiom in some cases, e.g. (r ->) instead of ((->) r). Is there a particular syntactic reason to disallow it?

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Version 7.8.4
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