Accessing the n'th field of a struct is fairly common, and in
particular accessing the 0'th field of the receiver parameter list is
very common. Add helper methods for both of these tasks and update
code to make use of them.

Change-Id: I81f551fecdca306b3800636caebcd0dc106f2ed7
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