Trie workaround: Avoid assertion failure for "higher" bits. #250
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The problematic use case for this data structure is a poor hash function with many unequal keys whose hashes are all equal for some reason.
In these cases, the data structure design assumptions get violated, but there isn't a clear place to check for this given how things are structured. It's a lot of inductive, bottom-up logic.
This PR is helping move the problem, when it arises, from some low-level assertion failure into another part of the logic. To be clear, I do not think this PR is addressing the root issue of the design or its problematic behavior that we see in CanCan today. But it's helping push the problem into a new place, in other parts of the code.