Ben Gamari authored Feb 06, 2020 and Marge Bot committed Feb 08, 2020

The comment in GHC.Base claimed that ($) couldn't be used in that module
as it was wired-in. However, this is no longer true; ($) is merely known
key and is defined in Haskell (with a RuntimeRep-polymorphic type) in
GHC.Base.

The one piece of magic that ($) retains is that it a special typing
rule to allow type inference with higher-rank types
(e.g. `runST $ blah`; see Note [Typing rule for ($)] in TcExpr).