[GHC] #8751: Show parenthesised output of expressions in ghci

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#8751: Show parenthesised output of expressions in ghci
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        Reporter:  Iceland_jack      |                Owner:
            Type:  feature request   |               Status:  infoneeded
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  GHCi              |              Version:  7.6.3
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+ An example that is tricky for me is `calculateBmi w h =  w / h^2`.
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New description:

 Operator fixity can be a source of bugs (even for experienced
 users!),[#point1 ¹] [#point2 ²] precedence levels may vary between
 languages and then there are user-defined operators.

 Attached is a patch for a ghci command allowing users to quickly
 parenthesise expressions as a sanity check (and as an alternative to using
 :info and parsing the result yourself). The command itself is activated
 with `:paren`:

 {{{#!hs
 ghci> :paren 2 + 10 * 4 / 3
 2 + ((10 * 4) / 3)
 ghci> :paren \a b → a == b || b && a == (b == a) || b
 \ a b -> (a == b) || ((b && (a == (b == a))) || b)
 ghci> :paren 5 + 1 `mod` 2
 5 + (1 `mod` 2)
 ghci> :paren 5 * 1 `mod` 2
 (5 * 1) `mod` 2
 }}}

 A friend of mine also pointed out that this could eventually be integrated
 into `haskell-mode` where the user could temporarily replace an expression
 with a parenthesised version or have different colours indicate different
 levels of logical nesting.

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 An example that is tricky for me is `calculateBmi w h =  w / h^2`.

 [=#point1 ¹] [http://www.knosof.co.uk/cbook/accu06.html Developer beliefs
 about binary operator precedence]

 [=#point2 ²]
 [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7548903/?platform=hootsuite Brace
 Yourself] ([https://twitter.com/ieeesoftware/status/791882437295038464
 tweet])

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Comment (by Iceland_jack):

 No

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