EDSC: introduce min/max only usable inside for upper/lower bounds of a loop
Introduce a type-safe way of building a 'for' loop with max/min bounds in EDSC. Define new types MaxExpr and MinExpr in C++ EDSC API and expose them to Python bindings. Use values of these type to construct 'for' loops with max/min in newly introduced overloads of the `edsc::For` factory function. Note that in C APIs, we still must expose MaxMinFor as a different function because C has no overloads. Also note that MaxExpr and MinExpr do _not_ derive from Expr because they are not allowed to be used in a regular Expr context (which may produce `affine.apply` instructions not expecting `min` or `max`). Factory functions `Min` and `Max` in Python can be further overloaded to produce chains of comparisons and selects on non-index types. This is not trivial in C++ since overloaded functions cannot differ by the return type only (`MaxExpr` or `Expr`) and making `MaxExpr` derive from `Expr` defies the purpose of type-safe construction. PiperOrigin-RevId: 234786131
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