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Commit b586f77b authored by Simon Peyton Jones's avatar Simon Peyton Jones Committed by Ben Gamari
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Refactor coercion holes

In fixing Trac #14584 I found that it would be /much/ more
convenient if a "hole" in a coercion (much like a unification
variable in a type) acutally had a CoVar associated with it
rather than just a Unique.  Then I can ask what the free variables
of a coercion is, and get a set of CoVars including those
as-yet-un-filled in holes.

Once that is done, it makes no sense to stuff coercion holes
inside UnivCo.  They were there before so we could know the
kind and role of a "hole" coercion, but once there is a CoVar
we can get that info from the CoVar.  So I removed HoleProv
from UnivCoProvenance and added HoleCo to Coercion.

In summary:

* Add HoleCo to Coercion and remove HoleProv from UnivCoProvanance

* Similarly in IfaceCoercion

* Make CoercionHole have a CoVar in it, not a Unique

* Make tyCoVarsOfCo return the free coercion-hole variables
  as well as the ordinary free CoVars.  Similarly, remember
  to zonk the CoVar in a CoercionHole

We could go further, and remove CoercionHole as a distinct type
altogther, just collapsing it into HoleCo.  But I have not done
that yet.

(cherry picked from commit a492af06)
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