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diff --git a/057shape_shifting_container.cc b/057shape_shifting_container.cc
index e57edc1f..5427d3a1 100644
--- a/057shape_shifting_container.cc
+++ b/057shape_shifting_container.cc
@@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ container foo:_b [
 
 :(before "End Globals")
 // We'll use large type ordinals to mean "the following type of the variable".
+// For example, if we have a generic type called foo:_elem, the type
+// ingredient _elem in foo's type_info will have value START_TYPE_INGREDIENTS,
+// and we'll handle it by looking in the current reagent for the next type
+// that appears after foo.
 const int START_TYPE_INGREDIENTS = 2000;
 :(before "End Commandline Parsing")  // after loading .mu files
 assert(Next_type_ordinal < START_TYPE_INGREDIENTS);