[GHC] #15108: Panic: collectNBinders

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#15108: Panic: collectNBinders
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        Reporter:  cdisselkoen       |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  closed
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:  8.6.1
       Component:  Profiling         |              Version:  8.4.2
      Resolution:  fixed             |             Keywords:  panic
                                     |  collectNBinders
Operating System:  Linux             |         Architecture:
 Type of failure:  Compile-time      |  Unknown/Multiple
  crash or panic                     |            Test Case:
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Comment (by simonpj):

 I suppose we could, but a key aspect of the current join points is that
 their semantics is exactly that of let-bindings; and often code (e.g.
 strictness analysis) can work uniformly for both.

 Yes, there are many ways in which we could change the representation.
 E.g. maybe `Lam` should take a list of binders, or `App` should take a
 list of arguments.  But my instinct is that you save code in some places
 and lose it in others.

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