[GHC] #1496: Newtypes and type families combine to produce inconsistent FC(X) axiom sets

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#1496: Newtypes and type families combine to produce inconsistent FC(X) axiom sets
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    Reporter:  sorear                   |       Owner:  simonpj         
        Type:  bug                      |      Status:  new             
    Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  7.6.2           
   Component:  Compiler (Type checker)  |     Version:  6.7             
    Keywords:                           |          Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple         |     Failure:  None/Unknown    
  Difficulty:  Unknown                  |    Testcase:                  
   Blockedby:                           |    Blocking:  5498            
     Related:                           |  
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Comment(by morabbin):

 Is this bug handled by the POPL 2011 paper "Generative Type Abstraction
 and Type-level Computation"? Noted in #4846 as pointing the way to solving
 the problems therein.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1496#comment:40>
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