ICU-23486 Improve clarity of getOperator assertion

[ianthetechie]

This clarifies the assertion condition in what used to rely on an implicit operator. This caused compilation failures on FreeBSD 15-STABLE for a while. While the strict assertion sanitizer has been reverted upstream, I think this is clearer, so I'm opening this PR.

Refer to the Jira ticket for a fuller background.

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[ianthetechie]

I've tried to accept the CLA several times but it seems the app is broken so I don't know if I succeeded.

[markusicu]

I've tried to accept the CLA several times but it seems the app is broken so I don't know if I succeeded.

Please try again.

[ianthetechie]

I think it actually worked the last time I guess? When I try going through the form again, after clicking through the first page, I get this at the bottom (it remembers the info from the first time last week) but there is no further button I can press.

[markusicu]

thanks -- should work either way, but this is more readable

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[markusicu]

rebased to recent ICU main to try to get past the msys2 check failure