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Mike Gerwitz 419b24f251 tamer: Introduce NIR (accepting only)
This introduces NIR, but only as an accepting grammar; it doesn't yet emit
the NIR IR, beyond TODOs.

This modifies `tamec` to, while copying XIR, also attempt to lower NIR to
produce parser errors, if any.  It does not yet fail compilation, as I just
want to be cautious and observe that everything's working properly for a
little while as people use it, before I potentially break builds.

This is the culmination of months of supporting effort.  The NIR grammar is
derived from our existing TAME sources internally, which I use for now as a
test case until I introduce test cases directly into TAMER later on (I'd do
it now, if I hadn't spent so much time on this; I'll start introducing tests
as I begin emitting NIR tokens).  This is capable of fully parsing our
largest system with >900 packages, as well as `core`.

`tamec`'s lowering is a mess; that'll be cleaned up in future commits.  The
same can be said about `tameld`.

NIR's grammar has some initial documentation, but this will improve over
time as well.

The generated docs still need some improvement, too, especially with
generated identifiers; I just want to get this out here for testing.

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