[GHC] #9649: symbols should/might be type level lists of chars

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#9649: symbols should/might be type level lists of chars
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              Reporter:  ibotty      |            Owner:  ibotty
                  Type:  feature     |           Status:  new
  request                            |        Milestone:  7.10.1
              Priority:  normal      |          Version:
             Component:  Compiler    |         Keywords:
            Resolution:              |     Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
      Operating System:              |       Difficulty:  Unknown
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Comment (by goldfire):

 I agree in that I find the impedance mismatch between term-level `String`s
 and type-level `Symbol`s a little annoying. But, there's a fairly sensible
 workaround: use lists of one-character symbols. A little quasi-quoting to
 ease the syntactic pain and you can get fairly far.

 I would still rather, of course, built-in support.

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