yacc.c: introduce an enum that defines the symbol's number

There's a number of advantage in exposing the symbol (internal)
numbers:

- custom error messages can use them to decide how to represent a
  given symbol, or a set of symbols.

- we need something similar in uses of yyexpected_tokens.  For
  instance, currently, bistromathic's completion() reads:

    int ntokens = expected_tokens (line, tokens, YYNTOKENS);
    [...]
    for (int i = 0; i < ntokens; ++i)
      if (tokens[i] == YYTRANSLATE (TOK_VAR))
      [...]
      else if (tokens[i] == YYTRANSLATE (TOK_FUN))
      [...]
      else
      [...]

- now that it's a compile-time expression, we can easily build static
  tables, switch, etc.

- some users depended on the ability to get the token number from a
  symbol to write test cases for their scanners.  But Bison 3.5
  removed the table this feature depended upon (a reverse
  yytranslate).  Now they can check against the actual symbol number,
  without having pay (space and time) a conversion.
  See https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-bison/2020-01/msg00001.html, and
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2020-03/msg00015.html.

- it helps us clearly separate the internal symbol numbers from the
  external token numbers, whose difference is sometimes blurred in the
  code when values coincide (e.g. "yychar = yytoken = YYEOF").

- it allows us to get rid of ugly macros with inconsistent names such
  as YYUNDEFTOK and YYTERROR, and to group related definitions
  together.

- similarly it provides a clean access to the $accept symbol (which
  proves convenient in a current experimentation of mine with several
  %start symbols).

Let's declare this type as a private type (in the *.c file, not
the *.h one).  So it does not need to be influenced by the api prefix.

* data/skeletons/bison.m4 (b4_symbol_sid): New.
(b4_symbol): Use it.
* data/skeletons/c.m4 (b4_symbol_enum, b4_declare_symbol_enum): New.
* data/skeletons/yacc.c: Use b4_declare_symbol_enum.
(YYUNDEFTOK, YYTERROR): Remove.
Use the corresponding symbol enum instead.

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diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
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--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ There is some confusion over these terms, which is even a problem for
 translators.  We need something clear, especially if we provide access to
 the symbol numbers (which would be useful for custom error messages).
 
+We could use "number" and "code".
+
 *** The documentation
 
 You can explicitly specify the numeric code for a token type...
@@ -42,6 +44,9 @@ uses "user token number" in most places.
     complain (&loc, complaint, _("user token number of %s too large"),
               sym->tag);
 
+*** M4
+Make it consistent with the rest (it uses "user_number" and "number").
+
 ** Symbol numbers
 Giving names to symbol numbers would be useful in custom error messages.  It
 would actually also make the following point gracefully handled (status of