Add Colon to stdlib; touch up its doc

JuliaLang · Jan 11, 2017 · 3bf75e6 · 3bf75e6
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diff --git a/base/essentials.jl b/base/essentials.jl
@@ -229,13 +229,14 @@ function isassigned(v::SimpleVector, i::Int)
     return x != C_NULL
 end
 
-# index colon
 """
     Colon()
 
 Colons (:) are used to signify indexing entire objects or dimensions at once.
+
 Very few operations are defined on Colons directly; instead they are converted
-to `Slice`s upon indexing (within `to_indices`).
+by `to_indices` to an internal vector type (`Base.Slice`) to represent the
+collection of indices they span before being used.
 """
 immutable Colon
 end

diff --git a/doc/src/stdlib/arrays.md b/doc/src/stdlib/arrays.md
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ Base.getindex(::AbstractArray, ::Any...)
 Base.view
 Base.@view
 Base.to_indices
+Base.Colon
 Base.parent
 Base.parentindexes
 Base.slicedim