[ty] Avoid ever-growing default types (#20991)

## Summary

We currently panic in the seemingly rare case where the type of a
default value of a parameter depends on the callable itself:
```py
class C:
    def f(self: C):
        self.x = lambda a=self.x: a
```

Types of default values are only used for display reasons, and it's
unclear if we even want to track them (or if we should rather track the
actual value). So it didn't seem to me that we should spend a lot of
effort (and runtime) trying to achieve a theoretically correct type here
(which would be infinite).

Instead, we simply replace *nested* default types with `Unknown`, i.e.
only if the type of the default value is a callable itself.

closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1402

## Test Plan

Regression tests
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@ -31,3 +31,76 @@ p = Point()
reveal_type(p.x) # revealed: Unknown | int
reveal_type(p.y) # revealed: Unknown | int
```
## Parameter default values
This is a regression test for <https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1402>. When a parameter has a
default value that references the callable itself, we currently prevent infinite recursion by simply
falling back to `Unknown` for the type of the default value, which does not have any practical
impact except for the displayed type. We could also consider inferring `Divergent` when we encounter
too many layers of nesting (instead of just one), but that would require a type traversal which
could have performance implications. So for now, we mainly make sure not to panic or stack overflow
for these seeminly rare cases.
### Functions
```py
class C:
def f(self: "C"):
def inner_a(positional=self.a):
return
self.a = inner_a
# revealed: def inner_a(positional=Unknown | (def inner_a(positional=Unknown) -> Unknown)) -> Unknown
reveal_type(inner_a)
def inner_b(*, kw_only=self.b):
return
self.b = inner_b
# revealed: def inner_b(*, kw_only=Unknown | (def inner_b(*, kw_only=Unknown) -> Unknown)) -> Unknown
reveal_type(inner_b)
def inner_c(positional_only=self.c, /):
return
self.c = inner_c
# revealed: def inner_c(positional_only=Unknown | (def inner_c(positional_only=Unknown, /) -> Unknown), /) -> Unknown
reveal_type(inner_c)
def inner_d(*, kw_only=self.d):
return
self.d = inner_d
# revealed: def inner_d(*, kw_only=Unknown | (def inner_d(*, kw_only=Unknown) -> Unknown)) -> Unknown
reveal_type(inner_d)
```
We do, however, still check assignability of the default value to the parameter type:
```py
class D:
def f(self: "D"):
# error: [invalid-parameter-default] "Default value of type `Unknown | (def inner_a(a: int = Unknown | (def inner_a(a: int = Unknown) -> Unknown)) -> Unknown)` is not assignable to annotated parameter type `int`"
def inner_a(a: int = self.a): ...
self.a = inner_a
```
### Lambdas
```py
class C:
def f(self: "C"):
self.a = lambda positional=self.a: positional
self.b = lambda *, kw_only=self.b: kw_only
self.c = lambda positional_only=self.c, /: positional_only
self.d = lambda *, kw_only=self.d: kw_only
# revealed: (positional=Unknown | ((positional=Unknown) -> Unknown)) -> Unknown
reveal_type(self.a)
# revealed: (*, kw_only=Unknown | ((*, kw_only=Unknown) -> Unknown)) -> Unknown
reveal_type(self.b)
# revealed: (positional_only=Unknown | ((positional_only=Unknown, /) -> Unknown), /) -> Unknown
reveal_type(self.c)
# revealed: (*, kw_only=Unknown | ((*, kw_only=Unknown) -> Unknown)) -> Unknown
reveal_type(self.d)
```