Sylvain Henry authored Oct 23, 2020 and Marge Bot committed Oct 31, 2020

Avoid the use of global pattern synonyms.

1) I think it's going to be helpful to implement constant folding for
   other numeric types, especially Natural which doesn't have a wrapping
   behavior. We'll have to refactor these rules even more so we'd better
   make them less cryptic.

2) It should also be slightly faster because global pattern synonyms
   matched operations for every numeric types instead of the current one:
   e.g., ":**:" pattern was matching multiplication for both Int# and
   Word# types. As we will probably want to implement constant folding
   for other numeric types (Int8#, Int16#, etc.), it is more efficient
   to only match primops for a given type as we do now.