fix: allow bool dtype in zeros via typed_and_generic

[anandkaranubc]

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• allows bool dtype in zeros via typed_and_generic

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[anandkaranubc]

CI was failing here on @stdlib/array/from-scalar tests. That code path picks the default boolean type (bool) and then calls @stdlib/array/zeros to create a length-1 array.

zeros only allowed numeric typed dtypes plus generic, so it rejected bool and threw a TypeError before any array was built. The failure showed up in the from-scalar tests, but the real mismatch was that zeros did not accept a dtype that the rest of the stack already treats as a normal typed array.

This change updates zeros to use the same dtype family that includes all typed array kinds, adds a direct test for boolean zeros, and updates the docs and types so they match the behavior.

Seems like zeros was meant to also support boolean values:

https://github.com/stdlib-js/stdlib/blob/develop/lib/node_modules/%40stdlib/array/zeros/README.md#examples

cc: @kgryte

[kgryte]

This is the wrong fix. The actual fix is to replace the call to zeros

stdlib/lib/node_modules/@stdlib/array/from-scalar/lib/main.js

Line 94 in aaa6e06

out = zeros( 1, dt ); // delegate dtype validation to `zeros`

with a call to array/empty. Zeros is for numerical arrays.