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bpart: Fully switch to partitioned semantics (#57253)

This is the final PR in the binding partitions series (modulo bugs and
tweaks), i.e. it closes #54654 and thus closes #40399, which was the
original design sketch.

This thus activates the full designed semantics for binding partitions,
in particular allowing safe replacement of const bindings. It in
particular allows struct redefinitions. This thus closes
timholy/Revise.jl#18 and also closes #38584.

The biggest semantic change here is probably that this gets rid of the
notion of "resolvedness" of a binding. Previously, a lot of the behavior
of our implementation depended on when bindings were "resolved", which
could happen at basically an arbitrary point (in the compiler, in REPL
completion, in a different thread), making a lot of the semantics around
bindings ill- or at least implementation-defined. There are several
related issues in the bugtracker, so this closes #14055 closes #44604
closes #46354 closes #30277

It is also the last step to close #24569.
It also supports bindings for undef->defined transitions and thus closes
#53958 closes #54733 - however, this is not activated yet for
performance reasons and may need some further optimization.

Since resolvedness no longer exists, we need to replace it with some
hopefully more well-defined semantics. I will describe the semantics
below, but before I do I will make two notes:

1. There are a number of cases where these semantics will behave
slightly differently than the old semantics absent some other task going
around resolving random bindings.
2. The new behavior (except for the replacement stuff) was generally
permissible under the old semantics if the bindings happened to be
resolved at the right time.

With all that said, there are essentially three "strengths" of bindings:

1. Implicit Bindings: Anything implicitly obtained from `using Mod`, "no
binding", plus slightly more exotic corner cases around conflicts

2. Weakly declared bindin... (continued)

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