[m-rev.] for review: debugging typeclass_infos

[Fergus Henderson]

On 19-Jan-2004, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> For review by Fergus and/or Sam.
> 
> Make it easier to debug code that handles typeclass_infos, by
> 
> - renaming the macros that access the fields of typeclass_infos and
>   base_typeclass_infos to better reflect their purpose,

I'm not sure that this helps very much, because the names "typeclass_info"
and "base_typeclass_info" are already quite misleading -- they really
give information about a type class instance, not a type class.

As a result, names like "MR_typeclass_info_param_type_info" are quite
unclear -- is it the type_info for a parameter of the instance declaration,
or a parameter of the type class?
Likewise for "MR_typeclass_info_num_params".

Otherwise that looks fine.

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