Mechanism for adding per-attribute docstrings to __slots__

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Review attrs' slot-generation path and Python 3.9 dict-form slots behavior, using inspect.getdoc() and help as the observable behavior. Determine how per-attribute documentation should be supplied and verified. Done means attrs-created slots expose the requested attribute docstrings without breaking existing slot generation.

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Python 3.9 added the ability to generate per-attribute docstrings on attributes in slots that are parsed by inspect.getdoc() and help by passing a dict to __slots__.

Since attrs can create slots, it would be great if there was a mechanism to follow this behavior.

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