(indirect) instance of every superclass of $C$.
If $C$ has a proper superclass $B$, then $B$ must not have $C$ as a direct
-superclass. In different terms, if we construct a graph, whose vertices are
-classes, and draw an edge from each class to each of its direct superclasses,
-then this graph must be acyclic. In yet other terms, the `is a superclass
-of' relation is a partial order on classes.
+superclass. In different terms, if we construct a directed graph, whose
+nodes are classes, and draw an arc from each class to each of its direct
+superclasses, then this graph must be acyclic. In yet other terms, the `is a
+superclass of' relation is a partial order on classes.
\subsubsection{The class precedence list}
This partial order is not quite sufficient for our purposes. For each class