- change contiguous from a series of global functions to separate
  templated traits classes:

    - is_contiguous
    - is_contiguous_label
    - is_contiguous_scalar

  The static constexpr 'value' and a constexpr conversion operator
  allow use in template expressions.  The change also makes it much
  easier to define general traits and to inherit from them.

  The is_contiguous_label and is_contiguous_scalar are special traits
  for handling data of homogeneous components of the respective types.