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Andreas Klebinger pushed to branch wip/andreask/cast_any at <a href="https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc">Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC</a>
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<span> by Andreas Klebinger </span> <i> at 2024-05-22T15:04:08+02:00 </i>
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In particular mention possible uses for non-lifted types.

Fixes #23100.
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