Make view lookups last-wins and chained access safe

* Lookups (operator[], at, find, contains, count, value, JSON pointers)
  return the last member of a duplicate key, as materialize() and
  parse() keep it.
* operator[] on a discarded view returns a discarded view instead of
  throwing, so v["a"]["b"] is safe for a missing "a".
* operator[] and at() take any integer type (not only int and size_t),
  fixing ambiguous calls with unsigned, long, std::int64_t, ...
* Fix the operator[] documentation, which claimed a discarded view for
  a type mismatch where type_error.305 is thrown.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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## Complexity
1. Linear in the number of members: as for [`ordered_json`](../ordered_json.md), members are compared one after
another, in document order, stopping at the first match. Each comparison first checks the key's length -- already
known from the index, without reading the key bytes -- before comparing its content.
another, in document order, scanning all of them, since the last match is wanted. Each comparison first checks the
key's length -- already known from the index, without reading the key bytes -- before comparing its content.
2. Linear in the number of reference tokens of `ptr` and, for each token, in the number of members of the object at
that level or the index into the array -- as for [`operator[]`](operator[].md#complexity) and
[`at`](at.md#complexity) with a JSON pointer.