A subset sometimes sharing its "parent" data is a not-too-rare source of hard-to-find bugs.
We should detect this case and warn this is deprecated:
>>> a = ndtest(3)
>>> b = a[:'a1']
>>> b['a1'] = 0
>>> a['a1']
0
This is a requirement before we can implement #597 and it should preferably be in place for several releases before we implement #597, so this deprecation warning should come as soon as possible.
Sadly, in some cases, this is the best syntax we currently have (combining a single label subset and a boolean filter, see #1084), so it would be nice if we could fix #1084 before this... But I don't think it is worth delaying the warning because our users very rarely need that (and it is broken for multiple labels anyway), while they not-too-rarely stumble on bugs caused by this feature.
A subset sometimes sharing its "parent" data is a not-too-rare source of hard-to-find bugs.
We should detect this case and warn this is deprecated:
This is a requirement before we can implement #597 and it should preferably be in place for several releases before we implement #597, so this deprecation warning should come as soon as possible.
Sadly, in some cases, this is the best syntax we currently have (combining a single label subset and a boolean filter, see #1084), so it would be nice if we could fix #1084 before this... But I don't think it is worth delaying the warning because our users very rarely need that (and it is broken for multiple labels anyway), while they not-too-rarely stumble on bugs caused by this feature.