bazel syntax: eliminate unnecessary array copying

Before, EvalUtils.toCollection would return a view (if given a Sequence)
but a copy if given a Dict. This makes it inefficient and also hard to reason
about. This change replaces it with Starlark.toIterable and Starlark.toArray:
the first always returns a view, the second a copy.

Also:
- CallUtils: eliminate array copying in handling of *args and **kwargs.
- Start removing Location parameters from everything we touch.
  Location is automatically added to EvalExceptions by the interpreter.
- MethodLibrary: eliminate array copies in
  sorted, reverse, tuple, list, enumerate.
- Also in string.join, string.partition. Simplify the latter function.
- Improve text of an error message.
- Declare Starlark.len, which returns the length of a string or iterable.

This change removes support for Starlark Map other than Dict, because
there are none today.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 282682290
15 files changed
tree: 6f5ab1f47583b7af4f2fe7e945898e2edc8a8abc
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  11. AUTHORS
  12. BUILD
  13. CHANGELOG.md
  14. CODEOWNERS
  15. combine_distfiles.py
  16. combine_distfiles_to_tar.sh
  17. compile.sh
  18. CONTRIBUTING.md
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  20. distdir.bzl
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  22. LICENSE
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