[GHC] #11120: Missing type representations

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#11120: Missing type representations
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        Reporter:  goldfire          |                Owner:
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  patch
        Priority:  high              |            Milestone:  8.0.1
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  7.11
      Resolution:                    |             Keywords:
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |         Architecture:
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 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |            Test Case:
      Blocked By:                    |             Blocking:
 Related Tickets:                    |  Differential Rev(s):  Phab:D1769
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Comment (by bgamari):

 While looking for another bug I stumbled upon #10343, which describes
 another, related hole in our typeable story: there is no way to extract a
 representation of the kind of a type. This seems quite straightforward to
 provide.

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