SCORU/Node: better abstraction for node context mutable fields
Context
Closes #4909 (closed)
This MR introduces a Reference module to abstract OCaml references, while carrying type-level information about whether they can be mutated or not.
This module is used for the mutable fields of the Node context t type. See #4909 (closed).
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