internal/typeparams: a new helper library for working with generic code

Tools like gopls will want to add additional features to support working
with generic code, but need to continue to compile at older Go versions
that don't support type parameters.

This CL contains an initial draft of a helper library that may be used
to interrogate generic type information from go/ast and go/types without
having to guard the calling code with a build constraint.

I will use this library to implement some generics features for gopls.
Once we're confident in the API, it could potentially be exported as
x/tools/go/typeparams.

Change-Id: I0ad3050b57cf8d8e8dda7d350d18f5e50f4105ff
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/tools/+/317451
Trust: Robert Findley <rfindley@google.com>
Trust: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Robert Findley <rfindley@google.com>
gopls-CI: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Go Bot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
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README.md

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Some of the tools, godoc and vet for example, are included in binary Go distributions.

Others, including the Go guru and the test coverage tool, can be fetched with go get.

Packages include a type-checker for Go and an implementation of the Static Single Assignment form (SSA) representation for Go programs.

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