[RFC] Allow to cast an any pointer to a dynamic value

[marmeladema]

This is just meant to start the discussion for https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto-rust/issues/565, not be a full implementation yet.

The idea is to allow one to cast an any pointer to a dynamic value. But in order to do that, the caller must provide the type of the value. The part I am not so sure about is whether the function is safe to call, even if the type is wrong.

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Attention: Patch coverage is 0% with 9 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 50.64%. Comparing base (ab342b3) to head (ae11091). Report is 157 commits behind head on master.

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capnp/src/any_pointer.rs	0.00%	9 Missing :warning:

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