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    [project @ 2002-03-12 09:13:08 by simonpj] · 65f44e38
    Simon Peyton Jones authored
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    	Fix mkSynTy
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    Fix a nasty and long-lived bug in mkSynTy which meant that in:
    
    	newtype A a = A a
    	type B = A
    	f :: B Double
    
    the type (B Double) wasn't regarded properly as (A Double).  This bug
    has lasted for a long time because the type inference engine is fairly
    forgiving about missing the invariant that a TyConApp always looks
    like one right at the top level.  In fact, it's so forgiving that I
    don't know how to tickle this bug into showing up.  (It showed up in
    5.02, becuase the context-simplification for 'deriving' is done by a
    different engine as all the other context simplification.)
    
    Still, the invariant should hold, and this fix makes it so.
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