Feature request to add a flag to identify if a list was scoped

This is a feature request to add a flag to an object specifying if the list was scoped. This would make it easier to check if the items returned from the scoped_items function were scoped and therefore no artifical clone would be required.

I'm open to adding some kind of flag method on the returned object, something like graphql_list_was_scoped?, and checking that inside GraphQL-Ruby. (I'd rather not go for multiple return ... in places where I've used that, it has added overhead and complexity 😩 )

Originally posted by @rmosolgo in https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphql-ruby/pull/3994#issuecomment-2265575031

Start by tracing the scoped_items entry point and the object it returns in GraphQL-Ruby. Determine where the implementation can record whether scoping occurred, then inspect the surrounding behavior to define how callers should observe that state and avoid an artificial clone. Done means the returned object exposes the agreed flag consistently and the existing scoped-list behavior remains intact.