As a side-effect we also get slightly clearer errors for some
pathological cyclic method declarations.

Fixes #23203.
Updates #26854.

Change-Id: I30bd6634ac6be26d3f4ef8c7b32e5c1bf76987dd
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/139897Reviewed-by: Alan Donovan <adonovan@google.com>