Feature: allow colon indexing of traced **vectors**

src/TracedRArray.jl

@@ -268,12 +268,6 @@ function Base.setindex!(a::TracedRArray{T,N}, v, indices) where {T,N}
     return a
 end
 
-function Base.setindex!(a::TracedRArray{T,N}, v, ::Colon) where {T,N}
-    v = TracedUtils.broadcast_to_size(v, size(a))
-    set_mlir_data!(a, get_mlir_data(v))
-    return a
-end
-
 function Base.setindex!(a::TracedRArray{T,N}, v, indices::CartesianIndex{N}) where {T,N}
     GPUArraysCore.assertscalar("setindex!(::TracedRArray, v, ::CartesianIndex{N})")
     indices =
@@ -293,6 +287,16 @@ function Base.setindex!(a::TracedRArray{T,N}, v, indices::CartesianIndex{N}) whe
 end
 
 function Base.setindex!(a::TracedRArray{T,N}, v, indices::Vararg{Any,N}) where {T,N}
+    if (N == 1) && (indices isa Colon)
+        # Remove ambiguity from the previous
+        # ```julia
+        # Base.setindex!(a::TracedRArray{T,N}, v, ::Colon) where {T,N}
+        # ```
+        # signature, which would be confused with this one for N=1.
+        v = TracedUtils.broadcast_to_size(v, size(a))
+        set_mlir_data!(a, get_mlir_data(v))
+        return a
+    end
     maybe_assert_scalar_setindexing(a, indices...)
 
     indices = TracedUtils.normalize_indices(a, indices...)

test/indexing.jl

@@ -31,6 +31,23 @@ end
     # get_view_compiled = @compile get_view(x_concrete)
 end
 
+function maskset!(y, x)
+    y[:] = x
+    return nothing
+end
+
+@testset "setindex! with vectors & colon indexing" begin
+    x = Reactant.to_rarray([4.0])
+    y = Reactant.to_rarray([2.0])
+    @jit(maskset!(y, x))
+    @test y ≈ x
+
+    x = Reactant.to_rarray(ones(3))
+    y = Reactant.to_rarray(2 * ones(3))
+    @jit(maskset!(y, x))
+    @test y ≈ x
+end
+
 function masking(x)
     y = similar(x)
     y[1:2, :] .= 0