Add no-useless-quantifier rule
#197
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This brings over the
clean-regex/no-unnecessary-quantifierrule.There is some overlap with
regexp/no-useless-exactly-quantifier. @ota-meshi, you said that we might want to deprecate this rule and I agree.However, if we do deprecate
regexp/no-useless-exactly-quantifier, then we have to handle the zero-quantifier case (e.g.a{0}) somewhere else. I think it might be a good idea to add a rule specifically for zero-quantifiers, similar toclean-regex/no-zero-quantifier.