Ensure that BitArrays are inferrable for arbitrary Integer
#37082
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BitArray operations are frequently performed with partial inference information (particularly from Pkg but others as well). Currently the internal operations are a source of invalidation for common arithmetic and bitwise operators. There seems to be no need to live with this, as all the inference problems are fixed by converting
Integer
s toInt
s. This is done elsewhere already in BitArray code, so it only seems to be continuing a process that is already underway.Because of the multiplicity of methods
BitArray{N}(a::Any)
is not fully inferrable but there are at least limited victories, and the real benefits are in the elimination of instabilities in the internal operations.