Hi All,
today it took me several hours to debug something that ended up being
the result of this behavior:
>>> from scitbx.array_family import flex
>>> x = flex.bool(True, 5)
>>> y = flex.bool(5, True)
>>> list(x)
[True]
>>> list(y)
[True, True, True, True, True]
>>>
I needed to pass a flex.bool array (with all True) into a C++ function
and I was doing it as "x" above. In that C++ function there was no size
check for incoming arrays (bad idea!) and then later in the code when
accessing elements of this flex.bool array I was getting "random" numbers!
I was pretty sure that flex.bool(True, 5) should lead to an assertion error!
Was this always like this (and I was just super-lucky to never run into
this issue in the past 20 years) or something has changed?
Pavel
