[GHC] #11785: Kinds should be treated like types in TcSplice

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#11785: Kinds should be treated like types in TcSplice
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        Reporter:  goldfire          |                Owner:  (none)
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       Component:  Template Haskell  |              Version:  8.1
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Comment (by RyanGlScott):

 Another place we should unify the treatment of `Type`s and `Kind`s is
 `DsMeta`. We have both `repLTy` and `repLKind`, but the latter covers far
 fewer things than the former, which has led to bugs like #13781.

 Sadly, accomplishing this requires more work than you'd believe, since
 `repLTy` returns a `TypeQ`, whereas `repLKind` returns a pure `Kind`. In
 other words, we'd have to go through and purify `repLTy`, as well as every
 function it calls which is also monadic (see
 https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3627#103117).

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