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    Pattern-synonym matcher and builder Ids must be *LocalIds* · fbb42b2e
    Simon Peyton Jones authored
    This easy-to-make mistake meant that pattern-synonym matcher and
    builder Ids weren't being treated as locally defined by the simpplier.
    That meant that we never looked up them up in the environment, got an
    out-of-date unfolding, which made the Simplifier fall into an infinite
    loop.  This was the cause of Trac #98587, but it was quite tricky to
    find!
    
    In a separate patch I'll make Lint check for locally-bound GlobalIds,
    since they are always an error.
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