Add editable json_documents: set, push_back, insert, and erase

basic_json_document gets a second template parameter, Editable
(false by default), plus the aliases json_editable_document,
json_editable_view, ordered_json_editable_document and
ordered_json_editable_view.

Editable documents can change values and structure without
rewriting the source text: set()/push_back() on values, keys,
array indices and JSON pointers; insert() before an array
element; erase() of an object key, array index or JSON pointer.

New values and element sequences go into edit storage that the
document owns and never moves, so views keep referring to their
value across edits and a parsed node never moves. Read-only
documents walk the plain node array and are unaffected.

Strings are checked for UTF-8 on entry, so dump() of an editable
document never throws type_error.316. Binary values cannot be
stored (type_error.319).

A seeded differential test applies random edits to an editable
document and to the equivalent ordered_json and compares both
after every step.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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<small>Defined in header `<nlohmann/json_view.hpp>`</small>
```cpp
template<typename BasicJsonType>
template<typename BasicJsonType, bool Editable = false>
class basic_json_document;
```
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is move-only: copying a document would either duplicate a potentially large index and text, or leave two documents
claiming to borrow the same buffer, so it is disabled.
With `#!cpp Editable == true`, the document also offers [`set`](set.md), [`push_back`](push_back.md),
[`insert`](insert.md), and [`erase`](erase.md) to change values in place, see [Edits](#edits) below. The source text
itself is never written; a read-only document (`#!cpp Editable == false`, the default) does not carry any of the
bookkeeping edits need, and calling any of them on one fails to compile (`#!cpp static_assert`).
## Template parameters
`BasicJsonType`
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[`ordered_json`](../ordered_json.md). Only 64-bit `number_integer_t`/`number_unsigned_t` types are supported; this
is checked with a `static_assert`.
`Editable`
: whether the document supports [`set`](set.md), [`push_back`](push_back.md), [`insert`](insert.md), and
[`erase`](erase.md) (optional, `#!cpp false` by default). See [Edits](#edits) below.
## Specializations
- [**json_document**](../json_document.md) - documents of the default specialization [`json`](../json.md)
- [**ordered_json_document**](../ordered_json_document.md) - documents of [`ordered_json`](../ordered_json.md)
- [**json_document**](../json_document.md) - read-only documents of the default specialization [`json`](../json.md)
- [**ordered_json_document**](../ordered_json_document.md) - read-only documents of
[`ordered_json`](../ordered_json.md)
- [**json_editable_document**](../json_editable_document.md) - editable documents of [`json`](../json.md)
- [**ordered_json_editable_document**](../ordered_json_editable_document.md) - editable documents of
[`ordered_json`](../ordered_json.md)
## Member types
- **view_type** - the type of view returned by [`root()`](root.md) (`#!cpp basic_json_view<BasicJsonType>`)
- **view_type** - the type of view returned by [`root()`](root.md) (`#!cpp basic_json_view<BasicJsonType, Editable>`)
- **value_t** - the JSON type enumeration, see [`basic_json::value_t`](../basic_json/value_t.md)
## Member functions
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- [**node_count**](node_count.md) - the number of index entries (values plus object keys)
- [**memory_usage**](memory_usage.md) - the number of bytes held by the document
- [**shrink_to_fit**](shrink_to_fit.md) - release unused index capacity
- [**set**](set.md) - replace a value, or set an object member, an array element, or the value a JSON pointer refers
to (`#!cpp Editable` documents only)
- [**push_back**](push_back.md) - append to an array (`#!cpp Editable` documents only)
- [**insert**](insert.md) - insert an element into an array before a given position (`#!cpp Editable` documents only)
- [**erase**](erase.md) - remove an object member, an array element, or the value a JSON pointer refers to
(`#!cpp Editable` documents only)
## Edits
An editable document (`#!cpp Editable == true`) can be changed after parsing, with [`set`](set.md),
[`push_back`](push_back.md), [`insert`](insert.md), and [`erase`](erase.md);
[`json_editable_document`](../json_editable_document.md) and
[`ordered_json_editable_document`](../ordered_json_editable_document.md) are the corresponding specializations. A few
points apply to every edit:
- **The source text is never written**, and the parsed index never moves: every value keeps the node it was parsed
into, so [views](../basic_json_view/index.md) taken before an edit stay valid, including
[`root()`](root.md). New values (and the element sequences of an edited array/object) go to storage owned by the
document, allocated on demand.
- **A view keeps referring to the same value.** After [`set`](set.md) replaces the value a view refers to, that view
sees the new value; a view of a value that a later edit replaces or drops keeps showing what it last held. An edit
of an array or object, however, **invalidates the iterators taken over it** (its members may now live in a
different sequence), and a string obtained with [`get_string()`](../basic_json_view/get_string.md) stays valid even
as further edits happen (earlier buffers of edited text are kept alive, not overwritten).
- **Values are accepted three ways:** a [`basic_json_view`](../basic_json_view/index.md) of *any* document
(read-only or editable; it is copied, nothing is shared with the source document), a `BasicJsonType` value, or
anything `BasicJsonType` can be constructed from (numbers, strings, `#!cpp bool`, `#!cpp nullptr`, containers, ...).
- [`dump()`](../basic_json_view/dump.md) writes an edited document with members in document order, new members at
the end, and, with [`number_format::source`](../basic_json_view/number_format.md), keeps the spelling of every
number that was not itself edited -- see [Editing a document](../../features/json_view.md#editing-a-document) for
why this matters.
- [`read()`](read.md) discards all edits, [`shrink_to_fit()`](shrink_to_fit.md) does not move the node index once
there are edits, and [`memory_usage()`](memory_usage.md) includes the memory edits use.
[`source_offset()`](../basic_json_view/source_offset.md) of a value introduced by an edit is
`#!cpp static_cast<std::size_t>(-1)`, the same value it reports for a decoded string.
## Version history