Consider emitting LocalConstants in Portable debug info
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Description
Our Portable PDB writer doesn't emit "Local Constants" (aka "compile time values")
This information is evidently emitted by C# in some circumstances, it's not clear to me where (it's not for .NET literals, which have their own metadata). See https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/3d8acbd585a75e9cdb3509623bf6c39ceb46b2c2/src/Compilers/Core/Portable/PEWriter/MetadataWriter.PortablePdb.cs#L125
Portable PDB spec is here: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/design/specs/PortablePdb-Metadata.md
It may be useful for F# to emit this information in some situation once we clarify what debugging experience it supports.
* [ ] clarify user-facing debug experience this supports
* [ ] decide if it's useful for F#
* [ ] add code to emit this if it's useful
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