Rule to remove superfluous brackets

[imd1]

For example, the brackets in the following snippet are superfluous, could there be a rule to remove them?

      if (sync_reset) = '1' then

[jeremiah-c-leary]

If we could determine which ones are superfluous....

   if (a = '1') and (b = '0') then

those are extra, but...

   if (a = '1' and b = '0') and (c = '0' or d = '1') then

...those are not.

we would need to figure out the rules.

[imd1]

I think that my example is an obvious case, but your examples are less so, in the sense that the brackets do provide a documentation grouping benefit and some people prefer that explicit style

[imd1]

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[jeremiah-c-leary]

Hey @imd1,

We should pick this back up.

I was thinking that you could use logical operators to determine which parenthesis are superfluous. In my previous example:

    if (a = '1' and b = '0') and (c = '0' or d = '1') then

The parenthesis are not superflous because of the logic operator. This would probably be true of logic operators also.

Is the rule simply a single word enclosed by parenthesis? Like in your example?

We could always start the rule out at that level and then add to it as we need to.

--Jeremy