Rollup merge of #72497 - RalfJung:tag-term, r=oli-obk

tag/niche terminology cleanup

The term "discriminant" was used in two ways throughout the compiler:
* every enum variant has a corresponding discriminant, that can be given explicitly with `Variant = N`.
* that discriminant is then encoded in memory to store which variant is active -- but this encoded form of the discriminant was also often called "discriminant", even though it is conceptually quite different (e.g., it can be smaller in size, or even use niche-filling).

After discussion with @eddyb, this renames the second term to "tag". The way the tag is encoded can be either `TagEncoding::Direct` (formerly `DiscriminantKind::Tag`) or `TagEncoding::Niche` (formerly `DiscrimianntKind::Niche`).

This finally resolves some long-standing confusion I had about the handling of variant indices and discriminants, which surfaced in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/72419.

(There is also a `DiscriminantKind` type in libcore, it remains unaffected. I think this corresponds to the discriminant, not the tag, so that seems all right.)

r? @eddyb

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