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metagn 44d2472b08 consider generic param type as typedesc in tuple type expressions (#25316)
fixes #25312

Tuple expressions `(a, b, c)` can be either types or values depending on
if their elements are typedescs or values, this is checked by checking
if the type of the element is `tyTypeDesc`. However when an
`skGenericParam` symbol is semchecked by `semSym` it is given its own
`tyGenericParam` type rather than a `tyTypeDesc` type, this seems to be
necessary for signatures to allow wildcard generic params passed to
static constrained generic params (tested in #25315). The reason
`semSym` is called is that `semGeneric` for generic invocations calls
`matches` which sems its arguments like normal expressions.

To deal with this, an expression of type `tyGenericParam` and with a
`skGenericParam` sym is allowed as a type in the tuple expression. A
problem is that this might consider a value with a wildcard generic
param type as a type. But this is a very niche problem, and I'm not sure
how to check for this. `skGenericParam` symbols stay as idents when
semchecked so it can't be checked that the node is an `skGenericParam`
symbol. It could be checked that it's an ident but I don't know how
robust this is. And maybe there is another way to refer to a wildcard
generic param type instead of just its symbol, i.e. another kind of
node.

This also makes #5647 finally work but a test case for that can be added
after.
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