feat: add blas/ext/fill-range

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Resolves stdlib-js/metr-issue-tracker#1369.

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• Resolves [RFC]: add blas/ext/fill metr-issue-tracker#1369.

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[kgryte]

I am wondering if we should rename this package to blas/ext/fill-from in order to distinguish it from ndarray/fill. The reason being that both are top-level ndarray APIs which "fill" an ndarray. And in the global namespace (including in the REPL), we'll need separate aliases for the two APIs.

Thoughts?

[headlessNode]

@kgryte I'm not sure on the naming here. fill-from give me the vibes that the start is not optional. Also, another question with that is why not fill-to.

fill-range combines both, but am not sure on that either.

[kgryte]

@headlessNode fill-range seems good enough. I don't have a better name.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6ab76cd3-9f64-83e8-9d50-107c687debb3

[headlessNode]

@kgryte Name changed plus other updates.