From 2cf299928671a9719ab2a3e5e36c5188cbc334be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristoffer Carlsson <kristoffer.carlsson@chalmers.se>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 16:17:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] make setindex with colon fall back to fill!

---
 base/array.jl | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/base/array.jl b/base/array.jl
index 6c1918db755b6..d84f067b0d329 100644
--- a/base/array.jl
+++ b/base/array.jl
@@ -383,6 +383,9 @@ function setindex!{T}(A::Array{T}, X::Array{T}, c::Colon)
     return A
 end
 
+setindex!(A::Array, x::Number, ::Colon) = fill!(A, x)
+setindex!{T, N}(A::Array{T, N}, x::Number, ::Vararg{Colon, N}) = fill!(A, x)
+
 # efficiently grow an array
 
 function _growat!(a::Vector, i::Integer, delta::Integer)