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Jacques Lucke 871b25b219 Geometry: generalize attribute filters beyond just for anonymous attributes
This introduces the concept of an #AttributeFilter. It's used to tell a geometry
algorithm which attributes it should process/propagate and which can be ignored.

We already had something similar before named
`AnonymousAttributePropagationInfo`. However, as the name implies, this was
specific to anonymous attributes. This had some downsides:
* A lot of code had to be aware of the concept of anonymous attributes even if
  it did nothing special with anonymous attributes.
* For non-anonymous attributes we often had a separate `Set<std::string> skip`
  parameter. It's not nice to have to pass two kinds of filters around and to
  have to construct a `Set<std::string>` in many cases.

`AttributeFilter` solves both of these downsides.

Technically, `AttributeFilter` could also just be a `FunctionRef<bool(StringRef
attribute_name)>`, but that also has some issues:
* The `bool` return value is often ambiguous, i.e. it's not clear if it means
  that the attribute should be processed or not. Using an enum works better.
* Passing function refs around and combining them works, but can very easily
  lead to dangling references.
* The default value of a `FunctionRef` is "empty", i.e. it can't be called. It's
  generally more nice to not have a special case for the default value. Now the
  default `AttributeFilter` propagates all attributes without any extra handling
  on the call-site.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127155
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