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WIP: Clean up printing of foralls

Chaitanya Koparkar requested to merge ckoparkar/ghc:T16320 into master

This patch implements the Clean up printing of foralls proposal:

  • Whenever printing variables quantified in a forall, print inferred variables with braces.

  • Maximally instantiate any inferred or dictionary arguments (class constraints) to expressions passed to :type

It also addresses a part of #16320. Specifically, it adds two more conditions to the predicate that decides if foralls should be printed. GHC will now print foralls if any of these is also true:

  • The foralls are not all at the top. Exception: foralls are allowed to be mixed with class constraints, but no foralls can appear under a proper ->.

  • Two quantified type variables are spelled the same

It does not address Inefficient implementation of eliminateRuntimeReps and Extremely confusing swizzling of foralls and contexts yet.

Edited by Chaitanya Koparkar

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