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Implement Quick Look impredicativity

This patch implements Quick Look impredicativity (#18126), sticking
very closely to the design in
    A quick look at impredicativity, Serrano et al, ICFP 2020

The main change is that a big chunk of GHC.Tc.Gen.Expr has been
extracted to two new modules
    GHC.Tc.Gen.App
    GHC.Tc.Gen.Head
which deal with typechecking n-ary applications, and the head of
such applications, respectively.  Both contain a good deal of
documentation.

Three other loosely-related changes are in this patch:

* I implemented (partly by accident) points (2,3)) of the accepted GHC
  proposal "Clean up printing of foralls", namely
  https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/
        master/proposals/0179-printing-foralls.rst
  (see #16320).

  In particular, see Note [TcRnExprMode] in GHC.Tc.Module
  - :type instantiates /inferred/, but not /specified/, quantifiers
  - :type +d instantiates /all/ quantifiers
  - :type +v is killed off

  That completes the implementation of the proposal,
  since point (1) was done in
    commit df084681
    Author: Krzysztof Gogolewski <krzysztof.gogolewski@tweag.io>
    Date:   Mon Feb 3 21:17:11 2020 +0100
    Always display inferred variables using braces

* HsRecFld (which the renamer introduces for record field selectors),
  is now preserved by the typechecker, rather than being rewritten
  back to HsVar.  This is more uniform, and turned out to be more
  convenient in the new scheme of things.

* The GHCi debugger uses a non-standard unification that allows the
  unification variables to unify with polytypes.  We used to hack
  this by using ImpredicativeTypes, but that doesn't work anymore
  so I introduces RuntimeUnkTv.  See Note [RuntimeUnkTv] in
  GHC.Runtime.Heap.Inspect

Updates haddock submodule.

WARNING: this patch won't validate on its own.  It was too
hard to fully disentangle it from the following patch, on
type errors and kind generalisation.

Changes to tests

* Fixes #9730 (test added)

* Fixes #7026 (test added)

* Fixes most of #8808, except function `g2'` which uses a
  section (which doesn't play with QL yet -- see #18126)
  Test added

* Fixes #1330. NB Church1.hs subsumes Church2.hs, which is now deleted

* Fixes #17332 (test added)

* Fixes #4295

* This patch makes typecheck/should_run/T7861 fail.
  But that turns out to be a pre-existing bug: #18467.
  So I have just made T7861 into expect_broken(18467)
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