On Mon, 25 Jul 2022, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:

      Do we have an existing way of substituting types over type variables, *in
      HsType instead of Core Type*?


I'm afraid not. Currently HsType is not processed much -- just renamed and 
typechecked
into a Type.

I wonder if, instead, I could expand the rhs, typecheck it "abstractly" (i.e. in the context of the synonym's binders), and THEN do the substitution. If I typecheck the rhs for every occurrence, I should get fresh metavars for each wildcard, which is pretty much what I want. I just
have to make sure I don't zonk before the substitution.

Does this make sense?
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