refactor(formatter): improve printing of parentheses for TSTypeOperator

[Dunqing]

Parenthesis printing should be generated by AST tools.

[Dunqing]

• perf(formatter): optimize RegExpLiteral formatting to avoid heap allocations #17797
• refactor(formatter): remove unnecessary MaybeOptionalSemicolon #17796
• refactor(formatter): remove unnecessary handling of program directives #17795
• refactor(formatter): remove outdated TODO comments #17793
• refactor(formatter): improve printing of parentheses for TSTypeOperator #17792 👈 (View in Graphite)
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CodSpeed Performance Report

Merging this PR will not alter performance

_{Comparing 01-08-refactor_formatter_improve_printing_of_parentheses_for_tstypeoperator (3166319) with main (e2f534c)}

Summary

✅ 38 untouched benchmarks
⏩ 7 skipped benchmarks¹

Footnotes

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Pull request overview

This PR refactors the printing of parentheses for TSTypeOperator to follow the established pattern used by similar TypeScript AST nodes in the formatter.

Key changes:

• Added TSTypeOperator to the list of AST nodes that need parentheses generation
• Moved parentheses printing logic from the write() method to the fmt() method
• Added format_type_cast_comment_node handling for proper comment formatting

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
tasks/ast_tools/src/generators/formatter/format.rs	Adds "TSTypeOperator" to AST_NODE_NEEDS_PARENTHESES constant
crates/oxc_formatter/src/write/mod.rs	Removes parentheses logic from TSTypeOperator::write() method, simplifying it to only write the operator and type annotation
crates/oxc_formatter/src/ast_nodes/generated/format.rs	Adds parentheses handling, type cast comment support, and proper formatting structure to TSTypeOperator::fmt() method

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Merge activity

• Jan 9, 8:37 AM UTC: leaysgur added this pull request to the Graphite merge queue.
• Jan 9, 8:44 AM UTC: Merged by the Graphite merge queue.