[GHC] #9882: Kind mismatch with singleton [Nat]

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#9882: Kind mismatch with singleton [Nat]
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              Reporter:  Roel van    |            Owner:
  Dijk                               |           Status:  new
                  Type:  bug         |        Milestone:
              Priority:  normal      |          Version:  7.8.3
             Component:  Compiler    |         Keywords:
            Resolution:              |     Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
      Operating System:  Linux       |       Difficulty:  Unknown
       Type of failure:  GHC         |       Blocked By:
  rejects valid program              |  Related Tickets:
             Test Case:              |
              Blocking:              |
Differential Revisions:              |
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Comment (by Roel van Dijk):

 I am now thinking this might not be a bug. The parser doesn't know that
 the `[42]` is of kind `[Nat]` so it parses it as `[] 42`, which has kind
 `*`.

 I was confused because `[1, 2, 3]` was accepted as a type of kind `[Nat]`.

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