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Forbid usage of `hir` `Infer` const/ty variants in ambiguous contexts

The feature `generic_arg_infer` allows providing `_` as an argument to const generics in order to infer them. This introduces a syntactic ambiguity as to whether generic arguments are type or const arguments. In order to get around this we introduced a fourth `GenericArg` variant, `Infer` used to represent `_` as an argument to generic parameters when we don't know if its a type or a const argument.

This made hir visitors that care about `TyKind::Infer` or `ConstArgKind::Infer` very error prone as checking for `TyKind::Infer`s in  `visit_ty` would find *some* type infer arguments but not *all* of them as they would sometimes be lowered to `GenericArg::Infer` instead.

Additionally the `visit_infer` method would previously only visit `GenericArg::Infer` not *all* infers (e.g. `TyKind::Infer`), this made it very easy to override `visit_infer` and expect it to visit all infers when in reality it would only visit *some* infers.

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This PR aims to fix those issues by making the `TyKind` and `ConstArgKind` types generic over whether the infer types/consts are represented by `Ty/ConstArgKind::Infer` or out of line (e.g. by a `GenericArg::Infer` or accessible by overiding `visit_infer`). We then make HIR Visitors convert all const args and types to the versions where infer vars are stored out of line and call `visit_infer` in cases where a `Ty`/`Const` would previously have had a `Ty/ConstArgKind::Infer` variant:

API Summary
```rust
enum AmbigArg {}

enum Ty/ConstArgKind<Unambig = ()> {
   ...
   Infer(Unambig),
}

impl Ty/ConstArg {
  fn try_as_ambig_ty/ct(self) -> Option<Ty/ConstArg<AmbigArg>>;
}
impl Ty/ConstArg<AmbigArg> {
  fn as_unambig_ty/ct(self) -> Ty/ConstArg;
}

enum InferKind {
  Ty(Ty),
  Const(ConstArg),
  Ambig(InferArg),
}

trait Visitor {
  ...
  fn visit_ty/const_arg(&mut self, Ty/ConstArg<AmbigArg>) -> Self::Result;
  fn visit_infer(&mut self, id: HirId, sp: Span, kind: InferKind) -> Self::Result;
}

// blanket impl'd, not meant to be overriden
trait VisitorExt {
  fn visit_ty/const_arg_unambig(&mut self, Ty/ConstArg) -> Self::Result;
}

fn walk_unambig_ty/const_arg(&mut V, Ty/ConstArg) -> Self::Result;
fn walk_ty/const_arg(&mut V, Ty/ConstArg<AmbigArg>) -> Self::Result;
```

The end result is that `visit_infer` visits *all* infer args and is also the *only* way to visit an infer arg, `visit_ty` and `visit_const_arg` can now no longer encounter a `Ty/ConstArgKind::Infer`. Representing this in the type system means that it is now very difficult to mess things up, either accessing `TyKind::Infer` "just works" and you won't miss *some* type infers- or it doesn't work and you have to look at `visit_infer` or some `GenericArg::Infer` which forces you to think about the full complexity involved.

Unfortunately there is no lint right now about explicitly matching on uninhabited variants, I can't find the context for why this is the case 🤷‍♀️

I'm not convinced the framing of un/ambig ty/consts is necessarily the right one but I'm not sure what would be better. I somewhat like calling them full/partial types based on the fact that `Ty<Partial>`/`Ty<Full>` directly specifies how many of the type kinds are actually represented compared to `Ty<Ambig>` which which leaves that to the reader to figure out based on the logical consequences of it the type being in an ambiguous position.

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tool changes have been modified in their own commits for easier reviewing by anyone getting cc'd from subtree changes. I also attempted to split out "bug fixes arising from the refactoring" into their own commit so they arent lumped in with a big general refactor commit

Fixes #112110
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