Ben Gamari authored 5 years ago and Marge Bot committed 5 years ago

`GHC.Prim.seq` previously had the rather plain type:

    seq :: forall a b. a -> b -> b

However, it also had a special typing rule to applications
where `b` is not of kind `Type`.

Issue #17440 noted that levity polymorphism allows us to rather give
it the more precise type:

    seq :: forall (r :: RuntimeRep) a (b :: TYPE r). a -> b -> b

This allows us to remove the special typing rule that we previously
required to allow applications on unlifted arguments. T9404 contains a
non-Type application of `seq` which should verify that this works as
expected.

Closes #17440.