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Drop `Box`ing of iterators during BOLT 11 invoice serialization

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Authored by Matt Corallo

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Drop `Box`ing of iterators during BOLT 11 invoice serialization

Now that we have an MSRV that supports returning `impl Trait` in
trait methods, we can use it to avoid the `Box<dyn ...>` we had
spewed all over our BOLT 11 invoice serialization.
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What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a routine code cleanup in the Lightning Dev Kit's BOLT 11 invoice serialization code. It replaces heap-allocated boxed iterators with Rust's newer 'impl Trait' return type feature, eliminating unnecessary memory allocations. There is no security-relevant change here.

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