Note [mkAppTyM]

GHC/Tc/Gen/HsType.hs:1850 compiler

mkAppTyM is trying to guarantee the Purely Kinded Type Invariant
(PKTI) for its result type (fun arg).  There are two ways it can go wrong:

* Nasty case 1: forall types (polykinds/T14174a)
    T :: forall (p :: *->*). p Int -> p Bool
  Now kind-check (T x), where x::kappa.
  Well, T and x both satisfy the PKTI, but
     T x :: x Int -> x Bool
  and (x Int) does /not/ satisfy the PKTI.

* Nasty case 2: type synonyms
    type S f a = f a
  Even though (S ff aa) would satisfy the (PKTI) if S was a data type
  (i.e. nasty case 1 is dealt with), it might still not satisfy (PKTI)
  if S is a type synonym, because the /expansion/ of (S ff aa) is
  (ff aa), and /that/ does not satisfy (PKTI).  E.g. perhaps
  (ff :: kappa), where 'kappa' has already been unified with (*->*).

  We check for nasty case 2 on the final argument of a type synonym.

Notice that in both cases the trickiness only happens if the
bound variable has a pi-type.  Hence isTrickyTvBinder.

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