[GHC] #11547: Accessing shadowed definitions in GHCi

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#11547: Accessing shadowed definitions in GHCi
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        Reporter:  mniip             |                Owner:
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  GHCi              |              Version:  8.0.1-rc1
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 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |            Test Case:
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Comment (by mniip):

 If we choose to provide access to shadowed identifiers then, in the
 debugger, our environment gets littered by `Ghci#._result` and
 `Ghci#._exception`. Is that desirable?

 I think I have a patch that implements that, but it breaks the debugger
 tests because of the above.

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