Joseph Ferano c2116a5e71 The four allocator questions are answered; say so, and say what to build
spec-memory.md settled them and NEXT.md kept asking. Ranked item 1 now states
the decisions and points at the section that holds them.

The build order is new. An allocator is a procedure plus a data pointer, and
check.ml refuses function values four ways as milestone 5, which reads as
milestone 6 depending on milestone 5. It does not: every one of those refusals
is about surface syntax, and the compiler already builds function values no
Flan type names — a handler-bind clause reaching flan_handler's fn pointer, and
a dev build's call through an indirection cell. So Allocator is a builtin
opaque type and the built-in allocators need nothing from milestone 5. A
user-written one does, because it needs a defn's name in value position.

Also recorded: 5 and 6 interleave, since the macro expander is blocked on union
values; the operation table has free-all and no retain-capacity, which Zig
splits and a frame arena wants; and two line citations in the Allocators
section point at the wrong place while the claims they support are true.
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