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    [project @ 2001-07-12 16:21:22 by simonpj] · ab46fd8e
    Simon Peyton Jones authored
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    	Fix another bug in the squash-newtypes story.
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    [This one was spotted by Marcin, and is now enshrined in test tc130.]
    
    The desugarer straddles the boundary between the type checker and
    Core, so it sometimes needs to look through newtypes/implicit parameters
    and sometimes not.  This is really a bit painful, but I can't think of
    a better way to do it.
    
    The only simple way to fix things was to pass a bit more type
    information in the HsExpr type, from the type checker to the desugarer.
    That led to the non-local changes you can see.
    
    On the way I fixed one other thing.  In various HsSyn constructors
    there is a Type that is bogus (bottom) before the type checker, and
    filled in with a real type by the type checker.  In one place it was
    a (Maybe Type) which was Nothing before, and (Just ty) afterwards.
    I've defined a type synonym HsTypes.PostTcType for this, and a named
    bottom value HsTypes.placeHolderType to use when you want the bottom
    value.
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