[project @ 2005-11-16 12:55:58 by simonpj]

[project @ 2005-11-16 12:55:58 by simonpj]
Two significant changes to the representation of types

1. Change the representation of type synonyms

    Up to now, type synonym applications have been held in
    *both* expanded *and* un-expanded form.  Unfortunately, this
    has exponential (!) behaviour when type synonyms are deeply
    nested.  E.g.
	    type P a b = (a,b)
	    f :: P a (P b (P c (P d e)))

    This showed up in a program of Joel Reymont, now immortalised
    as typecheck/should_compile/syn-perf.hs

    So now synonyms are held as ordinary TyConApps, and expanded
    only on demand.

    SynNote has disappeared altogether, so the only remaining TyNote
    is a FTVNote.  I'm not sure if it's even useful.

2. Eta-reduce newtypes

    See the Note [Newtype eta] in TyCon.lhs

    If we have
	    newtype T a b = MkT (S a b)

    then, in Core land, we would like S = T, even though the application
    of T is then not saturated. This commit eta-reduces T's RHS, and
    keeps that inside the TyCon (in nt_etad_rhs).  Result is that
    coreEqType can be simpler, and has less need of expanding newtypes.