[Feature]: Streaming support in `ciborium_ll`

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Description

The CBOR RFC specifies that CBOR can be used in streaming applications:

In a streaming application, a data stream may be composed of a sequence of CBOR data items concatenated back-to-back. In such an environment, the decoder immediately begins decoding a new data item if data is found after the end of a previous data item.

I would like to use this in my program jaq, where I have already integrated support for CBOR via ciborium_ll. However, I have hit the limitation that ciborium_ll::Decoder::pull does not allow me to distinguish between EOF and syntax errors. As a result, I have not found a way to properly support CBOR streaming in my application.

Acceptance Criteria

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Suggestions for a technical implementation

I see two realistic options:

• Create a version of Decoder::pull() that returns Option<Result<Header, Error<R::Error>>> instead of Result<Header, Error<R::Error>>. We could call this function next() and then also just implement Iterator for Decoder. :)
• Enhance the ciborium_ll::Error type with an Eof variant.

If you give me a green light for one of these two options, I would be also motivated to implement this change myself.