fix: proper typetracer array slicing in BitMaskedArray
#3028
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A long-running design choice was to avoid handling unknown-lengths as indices in
TypeTracerArray
; the caller (usuallyContent
methods) would normalise to unknown-scalars (0D arrays).This PR fixes a place where this assumption is not properly ensured, which was surfaced during testing of dask-awkward.
In the long run, I'd be in favour of relaxing this assumption and requiring that
TypeTracerArray
properly normalise unknown lengths to unknown scalars, but that's out of scope for this fix.