Fix method ambiguity error of shuffle! with AbstractArray{Bool} on Julia 1.11 (#24)

Co-authored-by: Eric Hanson <[email protected]>

Author: devmotion

src/StableRNGs.jl

@@ -141,7 +141,10 @@ end
 
 # https://github.com/JuliaRandom/StableRNGs.jl/issues/10
 Random.shuffle(r::StableRNG, a::AbstractArray) = Random.shuffle!(r, Base.copymutable(a))
-function Random.shuffle!(r::StableRNG, a::AbstractArray)
+# Fix method ambiguity issue: https://github.com/JuliaRandom/StableRNGs.jl/issues/23
+Random.shuffle!(r::StableRNG, a::AbstractArray) = _shuffle!(r, a)
+Random.shuffle!(r::StableRNG, a::AbstractArray{Bool}) = _shuffle!(r, a)
+function _shuffle!(r::StableRNG, a::AbstractArray)
     require_one_based_indexing(a)
     n = length(a)
     n <= 1 && return a # nextpow below won't work with n == 0

test/runtests.jl

@@ -139,6 +139,14 @@ end
     b = collect(a)
     shuffle!(StableRNG(10), b)
     @test b == a_shuffled
+
+    # https://github.com/JuliaRandom/StableRNGs.jl/issues/23
+    c = [false, true, false, true, false]
+    c_shuffled = [false, false, false, true, true]
+    @test shuffle!(StableRNG(123), c) == c_shuffled
+    d = [false true; true false]
+    d_shuffled = [true true; false false]
+    @test shuffle(StableRNG(31), d) == d_shuffled
 end
 
 # https://github.com/JuliaRandom/StableRNGs.jl/issues/20