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    Improve handling of data type return kinds · 59e0f754
    Simon Peyton Jones authored
    Following a long conversation with Richard, this patch tidies up the
    handling of return kinds for data/newtype declarations (vanilla,
    family, and instance).
    
    I have substantially edited the Notes in TyCl, so they would
    bear careful reading.
    
    Fixes #18300.
    
    In GHC.Tc.Instance.Family.newFamInst we were checking some
    Lint-like properties with ASSSERT.  Instead I've added
    Lint.lintAxiom, and called it from newFamInst.
    
    The one new test, T18300, causes an ASSERT failure in HEAD.
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