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The "worker" for a newtype is actually a function with a small (compulsory) unfolding, namely a cast. But the construction of this function was plain wrong for newtype /instances/; it cast the arguemnt to the family type rather than the representation type. This never actually bit us because, in the case of a family instance, we immediately cast the result to the family type. So we get \x. (x |> co1) |> co2 where the compositio of co1 and co2 is ill-kinded. However the optimiser (even the simple optimiser) just collapsed those casts, ignoring the mis-match in the middle, so we never saw the problem. Trac #16191 is indeed a dup of #16141; but the resaon these tickets produce Lint errors is not the unnecessary forcing; it's because of the ill-typed casts. This patch fixes the ill-typed casts, properly. I can't see a way to trigger an actual failure prior to this patch, but it's still wrong wrong wrong to have ill-typed casts, so better to get rid of them.
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