searchsortedfirst! should accept AbstractRange as x

[0samuraiE]

Thank you for this excellent package.

Regarding searchsortedfirst!, I think it's quite common to use an AbstractRange for the x argument. So I was wondering if the following signature could be allowed:

function searchsortedfirst!(
    ix::AbstractVector,
    v::AbstractVector,
    x,
    backend::AcceleratedKernels.Backend = get_backend(v)
)
Apologies if there's a specific reason it was not done this way.

[anicusan]

Hi, AbstractRanges are subtypes of AbstractVector, so this works:

import AcceleratedKernels as AK
using Metal

v = rand(1:100, 100) |> MtlArray
ix = similar(v, Int)
AK.searchsortedfirst!(ix, v, 1:100, AK.get_backend(v))

This was the main reason we added an explicit backend argument.

Or is there another kind of application you have in mind?

[0samuraiE]

I was wrong. I had to explicitly pass the backend. Sorry to take up your time.