Generic parameter

[jenshnielsen]

Make parameter generic in data and instrument type. This enables significantly better introspection of qcodes instruments and their data returned from parameters.

This takes the core infrastructure changes from #7655 and breaks it out into a pr with clean commits. The instrument improvements will land independently. Consult that pr for examples of improvements.

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[astafan8]

Even though the type system is not as powerful for supporting this feature, and the internals of qcodes are not as cleanly implemented, this is still probably a useful addition to make towards better typed driver code and hence measurement code, so let's give it a go by the users :)

[jenshnielsen]

Even though the type system is not as powerful for supporting this feature, and the internals of qcodes are not as cleanly implemented, this is still probably a useful addition to make towards better typed driver code and hence measurement code, so let's give it a go by the users :)

I think this undersells the feature a bit ;)

Consult #7822 for some of the improvements this gives.
such as being able to statically match on all possible values of a parameter: