Rollup merge of #120517 - Nadrieril:lower-never-as-wildcard, r=compiler-errors

never patterns: It is correct to lower `!` to `_`.

This is just a comment update but a non-trivial one: it is correct to lower `!` patterns as `_`. The reasoning is that `!` matches all the possible values of the type, since the type is empty. Moreover, we do want to warn that the `Err` is redundant in:
```rust
match x {
  !,
  Err(!),
}
```
which is consistent with `!` behaving like a wildcard.

I did try to introduce `Constructor::Never` and it ended up needing to behave exactly like `Constructor::Wildcard`.

r? ```@compiler-errors```
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@ -675,8 +675,9 @@ pub fn lower_pat(&self, pat: &'p Pat<'tcx>) -> DeconstructedPat<'p, 'tcx> {
cx.pattern_arena.alloc_from_iter(pats.into_iter().map(|p| self.lower_pat(p)))
}
PatKind::Never => {
// FIXME(never_patterns): handle `!` in exhaustiveness. This is a sane default
// in the meantime.
// A never pattern matches all the values of its type (namely none). Moreover it
// must be compatible with other constructors, since we can use `!` on a type like
// `Result<!, !>` which has other constructors. Hence we lower it as a wildcard.
ctor = Wildcard;
fields = &[];
}