The advantage is a C++ pointer is special, and this approach eliminates the Ptr class type that was causing problems in conversions. Attribute suggestion was courtesy of chandlerc. We're sticking with the Ptr name because it's shorter than Nonnull, and we're likely to keep this in lots of places.
With this, only main.cpp instantiates an arena. Maybe we'll want to split that up more later (e.g., so that the runtime interpreter uses its own arena), but given the intent to have type-checking update the AST, I thought this was a reasonable approach for now in order to avoid ownership complexities.
Fixes#769
Jon Meow
Geoff Romer