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    Be pickier about unsaturated synonyms in :kind · 6b70cf61
    Ryan Scott authored
    Summary:
    We currently permit any and all uses of unsaturated type
    synonyms and type families in GHCi's `:kind` command, which allows
    strange interactions like this one:
    
    ```
    > :set -XTypeFamilies -XPolyKinds
    > type family Id (a :: k)
    > type instance Id a = a
    > type Foo x = Maybe
    > :kind! Id Foo
    ```
    
    This is probably a stretch too far, so this patch moves to disallow
    unsaturated synonyms that aren't at the top level (we still want to
    allow `:kind Id`, for instance). We do this by augmenting `GhciCtxt`
    with an additional `Bool` field to indicate if we are at the
    outermost level of the type being passed to `:kind` or not. See
    `Note [Unsaturated type synonyms in GHCi]` in `TcValidity` for the
    full story.
    
    Test Plan: make test TEST=T16013
    
    Reviewers: goldfire, bgamari
    
    Reviewed By: goldfire
    
    Subscribers: simonpj, goldfire, rwbarton, carter
    
    GHC Trac Issues: #16013
    
    Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D5471
    6b70cf61