us to construct trait-references and do other things without forcing a
full evaluation of the supertraits. One downside of this scheme is that
we must invoke `ensure_super_predicates` before using any construct that
might require knowing about the super-predicates.
report are not *necessary* cycles, but we'll work on refactoring them
over time. This overlaps with the cycle detection that astconv already
does: I left that code in because it gives a more targeted error
message, though perhaps less helpful in that it doesn't give the full
details of the cycle.