[GHC] #11994: ghci not applying defaulting when showing type

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#11994: ghci not applying defaulting when showing type
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        Reporter:  j.waldmann        |                Owner:
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  GHCi              |              Version:  7.10.3
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Comment (by j.waldmann):

 > if you want defaulting ...

 This is not about changing the defaulting rules. It's just about the
 output of `:set +t`, which looked misleading to me.

 https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2016-April/011958.html

 I did not realize that `it` is actually polymorphic. So the output is
 correct. But then the type of `it` is not the type of the value that is
 being printed - which is again strange.

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