Note [Localise pattern binders]

GHC/HsToCore/Utils.hs:146 compiler

Consider     module M where
               [Just a] = e
After renaming it looks like
             module M where
               [Just M.a] = e

We don't generalise, since it's a pattern binding, monomorphic, etc,
so after desugaring we may get something like
             M.a = case e of (v:_) ->
                   case v of Just M.a -> M.a
Notice the "M.a" in the pattern; after all, it was in the original
pattern.  However, after optimisation those pattern binders can become
let-binders, and then end up floated to top level.  They have a
different *unique* by then (the simplifier is good about maintaining
proper scoping), but it's BAD to have two top-level bindings with the
External Name M.a, because that turns into two linker symbols for M.a.
It's quite rare for this to actually *happen* -- the only case I know
of is tc003 compiled with the 'hpc' way -- but that only makes it
all the more annoying.

To avoid this, we craftily call 'localiseId' in the desugarer, which
simply turns the External Name for the Id into an Internal one, but
doesn't change the unique.  So the desugarer produces this:
             M.a{r8} = case e of (v:_) ->
                       case v of Just a{r8} -> M.a{r8}
The unique is still 'r8', but the binding site in the pattern
is now an Internal Name.  Now the simplifier's usual mechanisms
will propagate that Name to all the occurrence sites, as well as
un-shadowing it, so we'll get
             M.a{r8} = case e of (v:_) ->
                       case v of Just a{s77} -> a{s77}
In fact, even GHC.Core.Subst.simplOptExpr will do this, and simpleOptExpr
runs on the output of the desugarer, so all is well by the end of
the desugaring pass.

See also Note [Match Ids] in GHC.HsToCore.Match

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* type synonym EquationInfo and access functions for its pieces        *
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\subsection[EquationInfo-synonym]{@EquationInfo@: a useful synonym}

The ``equation info'' used by @match@ is relatively complicated and
worthy of a type synonym and a few handy functions.

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