[GHC] #11471: Kind polymorphism and unboxed types: bad things are happening

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#11471: Kind polymorphism and unboxed types: bad things are happening
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        Reporter:  bgamari           |                Owner:  goldfire
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler (Type    |              Version:  7.10.3
  checker)                           |             Keywords:  TypeInType,
      Resolution:                    |  LevityPolymorphism
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |         Architecture:
                                     |  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |            Test Case:
      Blocked By:                    |             Blocking:
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Comment (by goldfire):

 I actually quite like this idea. I do think it's too late for 8.0. And the
 long-term plan is to make `Type` (that is, `*`) and `TypeRep` to be the
 same thing. So `* :: *` really will make sense! But perhaps if this idea
 came along earlier, we would have adopted it.

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