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Exhaustively handle expressions in patterns
We currently have this invariant in HIR that a `PatKind::Lit` or a `PatKind::Range` only contains
* `ExprKind::Lit`
* `ExprKind::UnOp(Neg, ExprKind::Lit)`
* `ExprKind::Path`
* `ExprKind::ConstBlock`
So I made `PatKind::Lit` and `PatKind::Range` stop containing `Expr`, and instead created a `PatLit` type whose `kind` enum only contains those variants.
The only place code got more complicated was in clippy, as it couldn't share as much anymore with `Expr` handling
It may be interesting on merging `ExprKind::{Path,Lit,ConstBlock}` in the future and using the same `PatLit` type (under a new name).
Then it should also be easier to eliminate any and all `UnOp(Neg, Lit) | Lit` matching that we have across the compiler. Some day we should fold the negation into the literal itself and just store it on the numeric literals
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