for plain inherits this is really just a stylistic choice, but for
inherit-from it actually fixes an exponential size increase problem
during expr printing (as may happen during assertion failure reporting,
on during duplicate attr detection in the parser)
(cherry picked from commit ecf8b12d60ad2929f9998666cf0966475b91e291)
Change-Id: Ie55f0cb01a37e766414c31f8d40f51c2c7d106b0
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