Properly handle by-name function types in REPL #18761
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Attempt to fix issue #18756
The fix is to transform term references to the
apply
method of the by-name function type. We transform((=> T1) => R)#apply
into((() ?=> T1) => R)#apply
.I have not figured out why this seems to only affect the REPL.