JuliaImages / JuliaImages/ImageBase.jl

FiniteDiff: support Bool array

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Description

Just need to eagerly promote the array to float types

julia> ImageBase.FiniteDiff.fdiff(rand(Bool, 4, 4), dims=1)
ERROR: InexactError: Bool(-1)

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Start at the FiniteDiff.fdiff entry point in ImageBase and reproduce the shown call with a Bool array and dims=1. Confirm that eager promotion prevents the InexactError while preserving the expected finite-difference result for floating-point arrays.

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julia
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