[GHC] #8888: Document Coercible in user's guide

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#8888: Document Coercible in user's guide
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        Reporter:  goldfire          |            Owner:
            Type:  bug               |           Status:  merge
        Priority:  normal            |        Milestone:  7.8.1
       Component:  Documentation     |          Version:  7.8.1-rc2
      Resolution:                    |         Keywords:
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |       Difficulty:  Unknown
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Comment (by simonpj):

 Replying to [comment:13 nomeata]:
 > And if I export it in `GHC.Types` and import it from there, then haddock
 and ghci (IIRC) display it as regular data type, not as a constraint,

 Are you certain of that?  Since it is in `wiredInTyCons` it will never get
 into `GHC/Types.hi`, nor will it be read from the interface file, so GHCi
 could never know that in the source file it was declared with `data`.

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