Simplify visibility() arg parsing logic, support visibility("//foo")

BazelBuildApiGlobals:
- An arg of "some_string" is treated as syntactic sugar for ["some_string"]. This supports args of form "//foo".
- Deleted special casing for "public" and "private". These are now handled by the sugar and by the new PackageSpecification syntax added in unknown commit.

BzlLoadFunctionTest:
- Add tests for `visibility([])`, `visibility("//foo")`, and the unsupported case of negated package specs

BzlVisibility:
- Add interning of special public/private cases; lift construction to factory method.
- Rename PackageListBzlVisibility since it's really package specifications, not packages being listed. Make private since users don't need direct access to it. (Kept PUBLIC/PRIVATE singletons as public since it's reasonable for client code to directly refer to those.)

Since it's likely we won't support negation, we could even eliminate the BzlVisibility class altogether in favor of lists of PackageSpecifications. This would simplify interning of public/private (but complicate any hypothetical future interning of non-trivial allowlists). But having a separate class is more convenient/readable for the bzl machinery.

StarlarkBuildApiGlobals:
- Move description of valid visibility() arg values to the arg's doc.
- Condense the mention of the distinction between bzl-visibility and target visibility.
- Mention behavior relative to --incompatible_fix_package_group_reporoot_syntax.

Work toward #11261.

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Change-Id: Ib9b2844abc03b0596399cc3fe09e9b89c6416e90
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  12. AUTHORS
  13. BUILD
  14. CHANGELOG.md
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  17. combine_distfiles.py
  18. combine_distfiles_to_tar.sh
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  24. LICENSE
  25. MODULE.bazel
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