docs: clarify clip behavior when arguments have different data types
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clipbehavior is undefined whenminormaxis outside the bounds ofx#814 (comment) and Python scalars in elementwise functions #807 and supersedes feat!: allow clip to have int min or max when x is floating-point #811 to indicate that behavior is only defined whenminandmaxhave the same data type asx. After reviewing SciPy and scikit-learn usage ofxp.clipandnp.clip, the overwhelming usage was using scalarminandmax. For all instances that I found with arrayminandmax, type promotion behavior was not expected. Given the various edge cases whenminandmaxare not the same type asx, it seems prudent to limit portable behavior to the scenario which avoids edge cases altogether.clampas suggested in docs: clarify thatclipbehavior is undefined whenminormaxis outside the bounds ofx#814 (comment).minand/ormaxare scalar values.