Array(::AbstractRange) should return an Array (#50568)

Currently, `Array(r::AbstractRange)` falls back to `vcat(r)`, but
certain ranges may choose to specialize `vcat(r::AbstractRange)` to not
return an `Array`. This PR ensures that `Array(r)` always returns an
`Array`.

At present, there's some code overlap with `vcat` (just above the
`Array` method added in this PR). Perhaps some of these may be replaced
by `unsafe_copyto!`, but the tests for ranges include some special cases
that don't support `getindex`, which complicates things a bit. I've not
done this for now. In any case, the common bit of code is pretty simple,
so perhaps the duplication is harmless.

Author: jishnub

base/range.jl

@@ -1380,8 +1380,21 @@ function vcat(rs::AbstractRange{T}...) where T
     return a
 end
 
-Array{T,1}(r::AbstractRange{T}) where {T} = vcat(r)
-collect(r::AbstractRange) = vcat(r)
+# This method differs from that for AbstractArrays as it
+# use iteration instead of indexing. This works even if certain
+# non-standard ranges don't support indexing.
+# See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/27302
+# Similarly, collect(r::AbstractRange) uses iteration
+function Array{T,1}(r::AbstractRange{T}) where {T}
+    a = Vector{T}(undef, length(r))
+    i = 1
+    for x in r
+        @inbounds a[i] = x
+        i += 1
+    end
+    return a
+end
+collect(r::AbstractRange) = Array(r)
 
 _reverse(r::OrdinalRange, ::Colon) = (:)(last(r), negate(step(r)), first(r))
 function _reverse(r::StepRangeLen, ::Colon)

test/ranges.jl

@@ -1802,6 +1802,7 @@ Base.div(x::Displacement, y::Displacement) = Displacement(div(x.val, y.val))
 # required for collect (summing lengths); alternatively, should length return Int by default?
 Base.promote_rule(::Type{Displacement}, ::Type{Int}) = Int
 Base.convert(::Type{Int}, x::Displacement) = x.val
+Base.Int(x::Displacement) = x.val
 
 # Unsigned complement, for testing checked_length
 struct UPosition <: Unsigned
@@ -2499,11 +2500,31 @@ end
     @test (-10:2:typemax(Int))[typemax(Int)÷2+2] == typemax(Int)-9
 end
 
+@testset "collect with specialized vcat" begin
+    struct OneToThree <: AbstractUnitRange{Int} end
+    Base.size(r::OneToThree) = (3,)
+    Base.first(r::OneToThree) = 1
+    Base.length(r::OneToThree) = 3
+    Base.last(r::OneToThree) = 3
+    function Base.getindex(r::OneToThree, i::Int)
+        checkbounds(r, i)
+        i
+    end
+    Base.vcat(r::OneToThree) = r
+    r = OneToThree()
+    a = Array(r)
+    @test a isa Vector{Int}
+    @test a == r
+    @test collect(r) isa Vector{Int}
+    @test collect(r) == r
+end
+
 @testset "isassigned" begin
     for (r, val) in ((1:3, 3), (1:big(2)^65, big(2)^65))
         @test isassigned(r, lastindex(r))
         # test that the indexing actually succeeds
         @test r[end] == val
         @test_throws ArgumentError isassigned(r, true)
     end
+
 end