Make aliases absent in module type of #1750
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Module aliases can be either absent or present -- indicating whether they exist at runtime or not. The two kinds of module alias can be coerced to each other, but they are not equal. This distinction is not observable to users because present aliases only exist in covariant positions and so they are never compared for equality only for coercibility. However, #1652 changes that by allowing module type of to copy a present alias into an invariant position. This leads to errors like:
which aren't great. This PR fixes the problem by converting all aliases to absent in
module type of
.