Rollup merge of #68712 - HeroicKatora:finalize-ref-cell, r=dtolnay

Add methods to 'leak' RefCell borrows as references with the lifetime of the original reference

Usually, references to the interior are only created by the `Deref` and
`DerefMut` impl of the guards `Ref` and `RefMut`. Note that `RefCell`
already has to cope with leaks of such guards which, when it occurs,
effectively makes it impossible to ever acquire a mutable guard or any
guard for `Ref` and `RefMut` respectively. It is already safe to use
this to create a reference to the inner of the ref cell that lives as
long as the reference to the `RefCell` itself, e.g.

```rust
fn leak(r: &RefCell<usize>) -> Option<&usize> {
    let guard = r.try_borrow().ok()?;
    let leaked = Box::leak(Box::new(guard));
    Some(&*leaked)
}
```

The newly added methods allow the same reference conversion without an
indirection over a leaked allocation. It's placed on the `Ref`/`RefMut` to
compose with both borrow and try_borrow directly.

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